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Health Care for America Now sent a bunch of staff members out to Denver for this week’s Democratic National Convention. They’ll be walking around, meeting folks, and spreading the message that health care needs to be the top issue in 2009. So, if you see folks wearing Health Care for America Now buttons, stop and say hi!

Richard Kirsch, our National Campaign Director, is in Denver as well, addressing various groups of folks throught the convention. Today, he addressed the Seachange Ideas Forum. You can take a look at the video here.

Watching the convention yesterday from the office here in D.C. (the online team got to stay at home and mind the tubes), Levana and I were struck by something pretty signifigant: In every major speech, health care was featured prominantly. Here’s a sampling:

Nancy Pelosi:

On health care for 10 million American children and on protecting Medicare—a bill so crucial that Senator Ted Kennedy left his own medical treatment to cast the decisive vote—Barack Obama is right and John McCain is wrong.

Caroline Kennedy:

If your children are receiving health care thanks to the Children’s Health Insurance Program, if you see a nurse at a community health center or if you’re benefiting from the Medicare program that he fought to create, and that just last month he returned to the Senate to save, Teddy is your senator too.

Michelle Obama:

It’s what he’s done in the United States Senate, fighting to ensure the men and women who serve this country are welcomed home not just with medals and parades, but with good jobs and benefits and health care - including mental health care.

That’s why he’s running - to end the war in Iraq responsibly, to build an economy that lifts every family, to make health care available for every American, and to make sure every child in this nation gets a world class education all the way from preschool to college.

We’re glad that health care is at the top of the agenda in Denver. We think it should be at the top of everyone’s agenda, no matter which party you’re part of. We’re looking forward to seeing if health care is at the top of the agenda next week at the Republican National Convention.

(also posted at the NOW! blog)