“We will not fix the health care crisis by selling more for profit private health insurance,” says Donna Smith, Co-Chair of the Healthcare Not Warfare Campaign and a member of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). Though most Americans support single payer healthcare, language guaranteeing healthcare for everyone was previously absent from the Party’s platform. Moreover, private insurance companies are firmly at the center of Barack Obama’s healthcare plan. At the same time there's growing support in Congress for John Conyers' HR676--a bill that would provide single payer national health insurance for all.

Disappointed with the Party's platform, the PDA and a broad coalition of progressive democrats were able to force the party to adopt language guaranteeing healthcare for all. It's not perfect, they say but it's better than it was and the balance is tipping. Find out how they did it and what it means with Norman Solomon, an Obama delegate and the author of Made Love, Got War, Michael Lighty of the California Nurses Association, and Donna Smith. And even though big pharma may be hanging banners from the rafters here in Denver they are not the biggest obstacle to healthcare reform. According to Lighty, the real obstacle is the liberal establishment that refuses to get behind HR676 and support a sane policy that provides healthcare for all Americans.