Quick Hit: Dear Grandma, Please Don't Get Scared by all this Death Panel Shit
Campus Progress, those clever kids, have launched a campaign to get young activists to send an e-card to their grandparents about health care reform. You get to be a good citizen and a good grandchild in one fell swoop.
Go here to participate.
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The treatment for the only major injury I suffered as a child was paid for with cash to the independent practitioner my grandparents used that I was taken to after my parents grew tired of the excessive wait at the nearest hospital my father's government health insurance would cover.
Do I still get to participate?
Alice, I appreciate that you have different views on healthcare reform than a lot of us but you've got to realize that your personal experience doesn't apply to every single situation.
I know anecdotes don't mean much, but since this thread shows a card that starts its argument with an anecdote, albeit a more vague and universal one, it seemed like the context-appropriate form of argument.
Then by all means get cracking on one. How about "Hey, isn't it awesome that we had enough cash to slap on the barrelhead so that we could hand-pick our doctor and not have to wait while that "hospital" treated that other guy's "gunshot wound?" Screw all y'all!" And then maybe you could spit on the card. It would be a nice personal touch for your personal anecdote.
While e-cards like this can be useful in some cases, the underlying assumption that grandparents will be scared while young adults will be rational about the situation bothers me.
What bothers me is that my grandfather a retired cop wouldn't be able to have his diabetic feet looked at under the cuts planned for Medicare.