Go Read It: Fixing health care - ideas from Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz

Pennsylvania Representative Allyson Schwartz, previously interviewed here at MOMocrats about her visit to BlogHer 2008 on behalf of the Obama campaign, has made fighting for Americans' access to quality health care a top priority during most of her professional and political career. As an executive director at a Planned Parenthood clinic in the 1970s and 1980s, she fought to improve low-income women's access to contraception, cancer screenings, and reproductive health care. As a state legislator, she was one of the principal architects of the of the Children’s Health Insurance Program in Pennsylvania, and in the late 1990s went to Congress to testify in favor of creating a federal CHIP program. And as the Representative for Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District to the U.S. Congress, she has worked to expand the original SCHIP program to extend health care benefits to millions more uninsured children.

So when Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz talks about how she thinks we ought to go about implementing meaningful health care reform in the United States, we listen. Go read Congresswoman Schwartz's op-ed, Fixing Health Care.