Laura Packard

Laura Packard is a health care advocate and stage 4 cancer survivor. She founded a non-profit, Health Care Voices, to organize adults with serious medical conditions for affordable comprehensive health care. Packard is executive director of Health Care Voter, a national campaign to hold elected officials accountable for their votes on health care, and support those who fight to protect our care. She also hosts CareTalk, a weekly consumer call-in TV show on act.tv and podcast, tackling health care and health insurance questions and topics.

Packard has appeared on MSNBC and local television, print and radio news across the country, her NowThis videos have received over 20 million views, her op eds have appeared in USA Today, US News & World Report and elsewhere, and her story has been covered nationally and internationally in publications from People to Newsweek to the Guardian.

Packard is an award-winning digital consultant by trade, and has worked with campaigns and non-profits around the country, including multiple U.S. Senate and Congressional campaigns, and local candidates at all levels. She is a small business owner, and has spent a decade+ working at the intersection of technology and politics. She can speak from her personal experience on all facets of digital campaigning - from online fundraising to social media, to GOTV.

Sub-specialties:

Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Inflation Reduction Act, health care reform, health insurance, Medicaid expansion, prescription drug costs, surprise medical bills, junk insurance, Roe v. Wade, Dobbs v. Jackson, abortion, birth control contraceptive, IVF, reproductive health care