By Carolyn Cole/Staff Writer
published Jan. 30, 2008

A dozen Oklahomans struggling to find health care call county resident Reggie Cervantes-Miller each week, hoping she can help them.

Like her, many of them have lost a job because they are too sick to work, which cuts off their health insurance coverage and puts their ability to pay for necessary treatments and their lives in jeopardy.

“It’s demoralizing to me because there is nothing I can do,” she said.

Cervantes-Miller traveled to Cuba last March with seven other World Trade Center rescue workers with filmmaker Michael Moore, who was making a documentary on the U.S. health-care system, “Sicko,” which was released this summer.

Cervantes-Miller will host a screening of the film at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Mustang Mandarin Buffet at 1200 N. Mustang Road, in conjunction with the Canadian County Democrats.

Now the president of the Oklahoma chapter of American Patients for Universal Health Care, Cervantes-Miller said she hopes the event will spark debate about the problems within her community.