‘Sicko' subject to speak on health care reform

ITHACA — Donna Smith, who appeared in “Sicko,” the Michael Moore documentary film on the U.S. health care system, is expected to give a talk in Ithaca next week.

Smith and her husband, Larry, were forced to declare bankruptcy and lost their home because of medical care costs. She is part of the Healthcare Road Show, a traveling group and program calling for creation of a national single-payer health insurance system.

Smith is scheduled to tell her story and discuss the issue three times in two days:

* 7-9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8 in Room 103 of Textor Hall at Ithaca College;

* 10-11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9 in Room 116 of Kennedy Hall at Cornell University, and;

* 7:15-9:15 p.m. Sept. 9 in the auditorium at Kendal at Ithaca, in Cayuga Heights.