Английская Википедия:Amy Vilela
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox politician Amy Lynnette Vilela (born 1974 or 1975) is an American politician from the state of Nevada. She worked as an accountant before becoming an advocate for single-payer healthcare, also known as Medicare for All, after her daughter was turned away from a hospital and died of a heart attack because the hospital thought she lacked health insurance.
Vilela ran for the United States House of Representatives in 2018 and 2022, and co-chaired the Nevada campaign for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign.
Early life, education, and career
Vilela was born in Maryland. Her father was an ironworker and her mother was a secretary. They divorced during her childhood. Vilela became a mother when she was a teenager. She ended up homeless while raising her children, and used public assistance. She earned a bachelor's degree in business and accounting from Park University in Missouri.[1]
She became the chief financial officer of the Tammy Lynn Center, a nonprofit organization serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She then became the chief financial officer at Foresee Consulting, a construction management consulting firm.[1]
Political career
In 2018, Vilela ran in the Democratic Party primary election for the United States House of Representatives for Шаблон:Ushr, which was held by Ruben Kihuen. Vilela met Kihuen at a forum in 2017, where he declined to support Medicare for All.[1] Kihuen dropped out of the race due to an unrelated scandal,[2][3] and Steven Horsford won with 62% of the vote, while Vilela finished in third with 9%.[4][5] The documentary Knock Down the House showcased Vilela's campaign, alongside the primary campaigns of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Paula Jean Swearengin, and Cori Bush, three other Democrats who ran for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. It premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival[6][7] and was released on Netflix on May 1, 2019.[8]
During the 2020 United States presidential election, Vilela served as the Nevada state co-chair for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. In January 2021, Vilela announced that she would run for Шаблон:Ushr in the 2022 elections, held by fellow Democrat Dina Titus.[9] Vilela received 20.1% of the vote in the primary, losing to Titus, who received 79.9%.[10]
Personal life
Vilela married David, a United States Air Force officer, in 2009. They are raising four children.[1]
In 2015, Vilela's 22-year-old daughter died of a heart attack. She had presented to Centennial Hills Hospital with the symptoms of a deep vein thrombosis. Sometime later, following a flight, the blood clot broke off and became a pulmonary embolism. Following her daughter's death, Vilela became an advocate for Medicare for All.[11][12] She founded a Nevada chapter of Healthcare-NOW!, which lobbies for single-payer healthcare.[1] In 2017, she filed a lawsuit against Centennial Hills Hospital.[13][14]
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