Judy Lanza, a labor and delivery nurse for 25 years, knows firsthand the damage that our current health care system has caused. Although Judy works in a New Hampshire clinic that provides affordable treatment for pregnant women, she sees women every day without health care insurance. Often, she will hear about women who go to private clinics and pay $1,000 to $1,500 in out-of-pocket costs for necessary medical treatments.

Our system is so broken that even pregnant women are not guaranteed quality, affordable health care. Activists like Judy Lanza are speaking out because they can no longer tolerate the inequity built in to our current system. Judy is not being paid to speak out, and she does not work for the government. She has no incentive to speak out other than her own moral conviction that health care reform is right. That's true grassroots activism.

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