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Laura Packard

Cancer survivor, health reform advocate

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Laura Packard (@lpackard on Twitter) is a stage 4 cancer survivor, national co-chair of Health Care Voter, and founder of Voices of Health Care, a non-profit for adults with serious medical conditions.

She is a small business owner in Denver.

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