Last month, Organizing for America launched the Health Reform Video Challenge - a contest to make the best thirty second ad for heatlh care reform.  The deadline for submission is October 18, less than two weeks away, and the winning ad will be aired nationally.  Anyone can participate - just go to http://my.barackobama.com/VideoChallenge for details and how to enter.

How awesome is Rep. Mike Honda?

Opponents of health care reform continue to use any desperate measure to derail reform efforts including making false claims about immigrants as well as acting like ill behaved children in a classroom.  The real lie about immigrants in health care reform is that the current health reform proposals still do not ensure legal immigrants will have equal access to Medicaid and other affordable health care options, and Congress has yet to do anything to fix this. &

I went to the doctor yesterday (I'm lucky my health insurance is fully covered by the small nonprofit I lead, where we see the health of our employees as critical to organizational success). As I was leaving the doctor's office, an elderly woman frantically rushed up the stairs of the building, asking me if I could help her husband. When I ran out with her, I saw that he'd tripped and fallen getting out of the car outside, lying down with blood oozing out of his head on the pavement.