WATCH: My Personal David vs. Goliath Fight for Affordable Health Care

I am admittedly crazy. It's just one of my preexisting conditions, probably. (Diabetes is the big one, though.) A couple of months ago, I left my safe, steady job to get out of California before it imploded, moved to New Mexico and devoted myself to teaching and filmmaking.

I am free. Broke, uninsured...but free!

I set my own agenda. I can make films about anything I want. Based on my own life experience and on stories like my friend Bob Cesca is telling, the biggest thing I do right now is to take on the huge moneyed interests that are going to fight tooth and nail against reforming health care in any meaningful way.

So I'm starting a personal project making 30 second spots about health care. I have this crazy idea that my voice can help hold back millions of dollars in lies. Not just mine, of course; if we win this, it's going to take all citizens acting like citizens and once and for all beating the insurance and drug company lobbies.

Please spread the word. Actually call congress and the White House. Talk to your friends or make your own video. If you want to help fund me on this project please visit LeeStranahan.com. You can donate or hire me for a video project of your own or something.

This is our fight.

Comments

[JuliaRain]

Lee!

Well done!

How about a short on the Canadian and Europe's health care system to quell all the lying and misinformation?

Looking forward to watching the rest of this series!!!

And for anyone who wants to know more:

Republican Lies About Canada's Superior Health Care

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-francis/republican-lies-about-can_b_201521.html

Debunking Canadian health care myths

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_12523427

Americans Who've Used Canada's Health-Care System Respond to Current Big-Lie Media Campaign

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mann/americans-whove-used-cana_b_215256.html

The Cost Conundrum
What a Texas town can teach us about health care

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande

Ex-Hospital CEO Battles Reform Effort

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002243.html?hpid=topnews

Health Care Rationing Rhetoric Overlooks Reality

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/business/economy/17leonhardt.html?_r=1&hp

What do we pay for, anyway?

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_12523429

[mmmtoblerone]

Can anyone set up a dollar a day campaign to raise funds to defeat anyone who votes against a public option if it loses and to help anyone who votes for it if they win? We need to have the money and will to play hardball like the insurance companies do. Our numbers are good, but percentage in favor doesn't matter as much as dollars in pocket, unfortunately, and I am sure these politicians figure everyone will forget and they'll have the smooth sailing of an incumbent when up for reelection. I'd donate, but I have no idea how to set it up. But if they could do that to get people to stop funding Coleman's appeals, why can't we do it for health care?

[olmossy]

You cannot fight Insurance Companies dollar for dollar. They have too much money. And they can pass the bill to you and the american people. It has to be an asymetrical? battle plan.

changecongress.com seems to be fighting a good fight.

[philistine]

That cuts right to the chase, Lee. Good work. Of course, you should really be pushing for single-payer universal health coverage, and the he11 with insurance companies; but conventional wisdom states that we must do this incrementally.

Isn't conventional wisdom an oxymoron?

[JuliaRain]

You are AWESOME!!!!!