Over 150 healthcare activists were on hand Sunday(including your correspondent) to consider the impact of Michael Moore's "iconic" film and what's changed in the fight for healthcare justice in the intervening years.(Everyone on the panel, despite continuing health struggles cited the opportunity to get chronic conditions seen to under socialized medicine as a key factor in keeping them going...Donna Smith provided a sobering fact, in that many of the people that there was "Sicko" footage of died before they could be in the finished project.)
I was surprised to hear from Donna Smith, PDA stalwart and Medicare For All Die-hard, say that initially, she blamed herself, the way capitalism teaches us all to, but then she took strength from knowing she wasn't in an individual fight alone.
Everyone on the panel said that the pandemic both delayed important goals(conferences, contact with legislators and the like) but that it underscored the importance of fighting for a universal healthcare system.
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