Kathie McClure
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Kathie McClure is an Atlanta attorney and the mother of Christopher, who has Type I diabetes, and Caitlin, who has epilepsy. After struggling for years to find affordable health insurance because of their pre-existing conditions, Kathie started the nonprofit Votehealthcare.org to educate citizens so they can be informed participants in the national debate. Kathie is a graduate of the University of the South and Emory University School of Law. Kathie can be reached at kathie@votehealthcare.org.

Blog Entries by Kathie McClure

SCOTUS: No Cameras, but a Place on the Sidewalk for Everyman

0 Comments | Posted April 4, 2012 | 2:28 PM

I wanted to see the Supreme Court's health care arguments with my own two eyes because my family has a lot riding on the outcome. My kids are sick with incurable illnesses and are uninsurable in the private insurance market. Obamacare will fix that in 2014 if the law survives...

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The Rule of Law on the Line

3 Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 6:04 PM

2012-03-19-images-justices.jpgThe United States Supreme Court has given an implicit "thumbs down" to television coverage of next week's three days of oral argument on the legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Facing a tsunami of public interest in...

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The Case for Cameras in the Supreme Court

33 Comments | Posted March 20, 2012 | 12:09 PM

At precisely 10:00 a.m. March 26, in a marble palace atop a hill in Washington, D.C., nine Supreme Court justices will emerge from behind red velvet curtains to begin an unprecedented six hours of oral argument over three days. In the case known as Florida vs. Department of Health and...

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Health Insurance Greed -- From Bad to Worse

0 Comments | Posted August 28, 2009 | 12:35 PM

Our family's health care story got air time on CNN today, but this clip doesn't tell the latest chapter. The news is that I'm about to embark on another journey that will make our health insurance woes even worse.

You see, tomorrow...

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Health Care Industry and Congress -- We're on to You, and We're not Going to Take It Anymore

0 Comments | Posted July 8, 2009 | 11:52 AM

This piece originally appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Why would an otherwise sane Atlanta soccer mom brave hail, snow and tornadoes to drive across the nation inspiring others to petition lawmakers? What possessed throngs of Montanans to surround their U.S. senator's offices in protest? Why would thousands of Seattleites...

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