Laura Packard

Laura Packard is a stage 4 cancer survivor and health care advocate, and founder of Voices of Health Care Action. She hosts CareTalk, a weekly consumer call-in show on health care and health insurance issues in America on Mondays at 4:30pm ET. Follow @lpackard on Twitter.


Latest from Laura Packard

  • Opinion

    OPINION: Virginia needs lower drug prices now

    As a Virginian and a cancer survivor, lowering the cost of prescription drugs is deeply personal to me. While going through treatment, I nearly died without a pricey medication that my insurance wouldn’t cover. I spent a week in the hospital recovering.