Chuck Smith-Dewey

Chuck Smith-Dewey is an author, designer and cartoonist. He founded healthinsurance.org in 1994 as the result of personal experience with the difficulty that self-employed with pre-existing conditions have with finding and keeping affordable health insurance. He’s since added a site for Medicare, medicareresources.org, and two sites that help voters determine how their representatives votes on health reform, healthreformvotes.org and medicarevotes.org.
He worked his way through college at Minnesota State University Moorhead producing regional tourism publications and producing fliers for local political candidates. Prior to founding healthinsurance.org, Smith-Dewey worked as the publications director and sports information director at the College of St. Benedict, a Catholic women’s college in central Minnesota, as well as in a variety of positions for an association management company, explaining benefits to members. An early tech adopter, he created one of the Internet’s early yellow pages services.
Writing under the pseudonym “Uncle Hyggly” he has written and illustrated several regional folk stories including the perennial favorite “Mr. Gonopolis And His 12 Holstein – A Christmas Story.” He self-published four titles under the banner of Wounded Coot Greetings, “for when you don’t quite care enough, to send the very best,” an homage to Hallmark where early in his career he had someday hoped to work.
Smith-Dewey is also the founder of pounce, a graphic design firm in the Twin Cities.
Smith-Dewey serves on the board of directors for Healthcare for All – Minnesota and To Be Fair, the non-profit that publishes Tarbell.org.
Posts by Chuck Smith-Dewey
- House GOP misleads with meme on health plans
- Massachusetts still leads way on reform
- Student has s’Tweet’ healthcare victory
- GOP turns a deaf ear to women … again
- An elephant forgets: the individual mandate
- Give your member of Congress a checkup
- 50 billion smiles for Obama supporters
- Health reform has eyes of Newt
- The red herring called HR 3000
- Obama shoots, he scores!
- The (tea) party’s over
- Who’s afraid of the big, bad Obamacare?
- Mitt Romney’s rotten Easter
- Happy birthday ‘Obamacare’
- When more is simply more
- North Carolina seeks to secede from Union?
- Reform repeal would balloon deficit
- Bush: the gift that keeps on giving
- Health repealers urged to walk their talk
- Insurers pay big to defeat public option …
- Doctor-lawmaker takes ‘hippocritical’ oath
- Insurance company profits up 41 percent
- Health reform squeezes donut hole
- New $2,000 medicare deductible?
- Voters waking up
- Rep. Eric Cantor: “blame the victim”
- Biggest pro-life vote in history
- The right side of history
- Who would Jesus insure?
- Job lock kills entrepreneurship
- Halloween comes early for Blanche Lincoln
- Progressives: “We’re just wild about Harry!”
- Obama joins Teddy, Wilson and Carter
- North Dakota dems cry “bad (blue) dog!”
- Schwarznegger urges GOP to support reform
- Blue dogs bark not so bad on public option
- Obama is more ‘Nixon’ than ‘Kennedy’
- Poll: 3 out of 4 doctors want a public option
- President hits it right down the middle
- Public option would help cap costs
- Middle-of-the-road public option
- The public option, simplified
- A tale of two Chucks
- And Franken makes 60 …
- Congressman: public option “too good”
- Sen. Ben Nelson’s conversion skin-deep
- Too little, too late from four GOP “leaders”
- “The needs of the many…”
- Another 4 million lose health coverage
- Gov. Kathleen Sebelius exceptional choice