I've read almost 31% of Texas residents have no health insurance - higher than any other state.
You'd think those 31%, plus the many people who have either inadequate coverage or fear losing theirs, would vote Democratic. But they don't - or Texas would be a blue state.
I know the standard argument - abortion, death penalty, gay marriage. But these issues cannot be more important than whether you have health care, decent wages, and so on.
Do people just get used to being shit on by big corporations and not expect anything different? Are few of the uninsured voting? Has the local Democratic party not made a big issue of health care? Have the Republicans framed the debate in a way that favors them?
We have to be able to make a big issue out of health care in states that have a high percent of uninsured residents. Note Louisiana, West Virgina, Arkansas, and Florida all have above average number of uninsured.
Here is a list I ran across from a diary over a week ago:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4965539,00.html