Ben Adler at Politico writes about about how young uninsured are starting to use Facebook to share their experiences and ideas about what’s happening in health care. This is a good thing. They’re mostly committed to one or another of the proposals for universal coverage offered up by the democrats. That’s probably as it should be as well. Adler writes that some pundits wonder whether health care will resonate strongly enough with young folks to sway votes. This is the $64,000 question (I know, dated reference and old school).
Yet the Kaiser Family Foundation finds that 42 percent of young people are very worried about being able to afford the health services they think they need, according to Adler. And they are organizing. Given those signs, I think health care could weigh heavily on the youth vote for president. But health care reform proposals are nasty for dishing out incomprehensible details. So the program might be less important than if the message is sent by the right person. My money would be on Obama.
