The first 17,000 miles were only the beginning on the road to health care reform.
We're down to our last couple of weeks on the road, re-energizing after back to back weeks of convention-mania
Gatherings in Denver and Minneapolis provided the perfect opportunities to meet and greet with local consumer advocates and supporters. Want to be a part of the next big get together? Read more.
GPS has its limitations when you don't know what state you're in
First stop: Denver. Next stop: Minneapolis. The Cover America Tour kicked off our conventions leg of the trip, ready to talk health care with the streets full of convention-goers.
The route through southern Utah tops our list of most beautiful drives
It only took us 12,000 miles to get here.
En route from Billings to Boise, we got to spend a day with the wildlife and geysers in surreal Yellowstone Park
Any idea what 10,000 miles worth of dirt and bugs does to an RV? We found out.
... where the buffalo roam
These gorgeous landscapes are really cramping our work style
We jump for joy... in North Dakota
The honeymoon's over?
Scenes from the heartland
Cover America Tour lands in Austin, TX for the weekend
Coco Robicheaux, shrimp etouffee, Bourbon Street – bet you can’t guess where we spent the weekend?
...or, what are we doing back in Tennessee?
Encounters with local fare and flavors as we make our way through the southeast
Almost a year to the day of her husband Willie's death, Dianne Parker hosted the first South Carolina Patient Safety Day in honor of Willie and the many others harmed by their medical care
As luck would have it, we arrived in Charleston, West Virginia on Saturday to find an arts festival in full swing, with live bluegrass music and some of the area’s finest artists displaying their work.
We unhooked the RV and bid farewell to the Midwest on Wednesday, heading south out of St. Louis along the mighty Mississippi River
Pics from Cover America Tour adventures in the Midwest
Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania – struggling to buy insurance on your own proves to be a common thread through many of the states we’ve visited on the Cover America Tour
After four days, three cities, two stories and one media event, we rolled out of Pennsylvania and into Ohio.
Twelve days into the Cover America Tour we’ve heard overwhelmingly from people about problems with the cost of health care, but there are other critical issues such as quality and safety we’ll be exploring as we make our way across the country this summer.
Plans to pull into the Brattleboro farmers market and talk to folks were rained out, so we kept on rolling across this glorious green state.
Rainy weather has been as much a fixture at Portland’s Old Port Festival as the lobster rolls in recent years, so we felt especially blessed when we got both a gorgeous day and a sea of Portlanders ready to talk health care on Sunday.
…but our spirits remain un-dampened. We’ve had a great start to the trip. Four days and four compelling health care stories later we’re camped at lush, marshy spot just outside of Portland, Maine
We pulled out of Consumers Union headquarters in Yonkers, NY, on a high, and who wouldn’t. A cloudless sky, a parking lot full of friends and colleagues hugging us goodbye, a whole summer ahead of us cruising around America in an RV. Who wouldn’t want to start a summer like that?
The Cover America Tour is 114 days long, but the preparation has taken that long and then some. To our fellow RV campers, highway drivers and summer travelers, I say to you: We are one prepared bunch.
At 27, I was uninsured for a year. Between jobs (non-profit jobs, nonetheless), I always knew that a clumsy step off the curb or a sudden sickness would mean emergency care and intolerable medical debt.
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