Remember in the last election when when many people were talking about hitting the road to visit their Grandparents in order to alleviate their fears about voting for Obama, something that even many progressives in the elder category might have had some reservations about?
I propose that we do need to replicate this action on a greater scale for Healthcare reform...
The Great Healthcare Schlep:
Take a look at the data Nate Silver has compiled on whom actually has healthcare in the USA and whom is more likely to be against expanded government involvement in it, even if much of the expansion will truly be beneficial to both those on Medicare as well as those that are underinsured or do not have any insurance at all.
Clearly there is a cutoff of the Medicare-haves from the younger generations and a disconnect that may seem to correlate directly to worries about their own healthcare.
The Great Healthcare Schlep
Getting in Granny and Granpy's face, nationwide, to debunk the myths that are circulating might go a long way to solidifying the momentum we have gained in the already strong public majority view that healthcare reform with a public option is necessary.
Make your Labor Day plans to visit...
Not only will you be helping the healthcare reform cause but... You can also look at it as paying them back from your election promise to visit if they helped elect Barrack Obama as president, which they surely did given his decisive victory in 2008. Besides that... They want you to be healthy too, don't they? And you do want to help them keep healthy for years to come so that you can be forced to visit them even more? Right?
BUZZ this!