David O Loud
Health Care Is a Human Right WA Steering Committee
WA
Health care worker in Seattle for 45 years, 1969-2015: hospital laundry (1 yr), free clinic gopher (1 yr), VA hospital ward clerk (5 yrs), medical center Patient Advocate (20 yrs), organizer with SEIU 1199NW (8 yrs), community liaison for Congressman Jim McDermott (10 yrs). After retiring, have continued as advocate/organizer for health/health care justice. Currently with Health Care Is a Human Right WA, broad-based community-labor coalition for universal health care at federal and state levels. In HCHR I represent Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action, which is helping to build a national campaign against the privatization of Medicare and for the expansion of traditional Medicare benefits on the road to Medicare for All.
healthcareisarightwa.org/
