Amid ongoing debate over health-care reform, thousands gathered Wednesday night at events held across the nation, including at least four in the Washington area, to urge Congress and the Obama Administration to approve a bill soon. ‘These vigils are to remind decision makers that the debate around health-care is not about politics but about people who are being crushed under the current health-care system,’ said Nita Chaudhary, the national campaigns and organizing director of MoveOn.org, a liberal group that helped organize the ‘We Can’t Afford to Wait’ vigils. Outside the U.S. Capitol, D.C. resident Iris Green spoke about her son, an assistant at a small business. The son, whose name Green didn’t give, was born with a heart defect and does not have health insurance. ‘My worries are that something will happen that could have been prevented in an earlier stage. I’m very concerned with where he’s going to go for healthcare,’ Green told a crowd of at least 150 people, some of whom held signs reading ‘Public option now!’ ‘The worst part is that there are millions of other people like him who are uninsured,’ Green said. At the Government Center in Fairfax, about […]