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Monday, June 29, 2009

Hundreds Rally for Health Care Reform


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Hundreds of doctors, nurses and other social and health care workers gathered in Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Park Wednesday, asking Congress to end the racial and economic disparities in the United States’ health care system.

"How can we be talking about the American Dream when some women have to choose between food for their children or going to the doctor?" Eleanor Hinton-Hoytt, president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative asked the assembled crowd.

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