What Will the Numbers Be Today on Facebook for Health Care Reform?
It’s fascinating to see the viral cry for health care reform all over Facebook today.
No one should die because he or she cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because he or she gets sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
One person puts it up early in the morning, you acknowledge it, and keep moving. Then another "friend" posts it as their status, and you say “good for them.” But you stop, check, and really read it when a majority of your friends are posting and it’s only 3pm PST. Are we just talking to one another -- yet again? Or have we taken a big step forward and is the campaign for health care reform reaching throughout the country?
The important question is who started this viral campaign today for health care reform on Facebook? Was it those other pesky liberals at Facebook that engineered this campaign? Was it Facebook flexing its muscle? Or was it readers aka friends all over the country that voted for that Democrat in the White House? Better yet, was it a whim or was it carefully organized? Will it reach Europe and Asia since two thirds of Facebook users are outside the US?
The consequences of this type of viral campaign are staggering with over 250 million active users worldwide. Facebook may be a force to reckon with, and perhaps becoming more pervasive than the long reach of Google.
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I didn't see a ton of my friends post the meme on their Facebook accounts, but a lot of good discussion was generated on the pages of the people who did. Many people were asking questions about what was really in the bill and what wasn't, so I took the opportunity to answer as many as I could and provided links where people could go to further inform themselves. I don't know how this phenomenon will affect the debate, but hopefully it will at least help clear the air as far as some of the distortions going around.
This is the moment to start the substantive discussion so that there can be a "real" conversation.
I would rather be in a real minority party, a party that sticks to its ideals.
When we were the minority, blue dogs voted for GWB’s policy. Now when we bring up how bad Bush’s reign was they turn it right back at us and tell us how many democratic votes agreed with him.
Now that we are in a fake majority because of fake democrat conservatives we are STILL at the mercy of the Republicans.
How do we gain by funding these “Republicans in Democratic clothing”. If Obama stood up for the people “which is supposedly what the democratic party is all about” I would proudly vote for him even if he can’t get what is right through because there are too many bought and paid for in the congress.
If we agree to a watered down (Conservative bill) it will fail. That is the whole point of watering it down, come election it will be the democrats blamed, not the republicans.
They will regain majority, they already have it, just not in name, and castrate further whatever piece of junk they allow us to pass now.
All or nothing is what the democrats should fight for, That's what the GOP does.
If we do the Democratic Party would grow stronger, while the GOP’s failures would be wholly theirs.
Let us have a REAL party for the people, not be a shadow party of republicans.
If we aren't different by anything but name why bother to vote?.
I think it will remain my status for the time being.
Progressives need to be as tough as the Republicans. If Obama drops the Public Option, then he can prepare to be blamed for not solving the health care crisis. Attempts to shift the blame to the Progressives, who in contrast are standing by their campaign promises, will not only fail to redirect responsibility for failure, but will ensure the demise of the balance of his agenda. Does he really expect that the progressives will support him or the blue dogs in future legislation? Another factor to consider, if he fails to get health care legislation passed, the republicans will know that they can bully him into inaction with little more than a couple of primitive grunts and a ham sandwich.
No one should die because he or she cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because he or she gets sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
Thank you
Great meme! And it's been fascinating to see who supports universal health care. I was surprised to see several of my privately employed, notably conservative friends post the health care meme, alongside the bleeding-heart liberals. And rather shocked that others - who work for the government and already receive taxpayer-provided care, including soldiers, teachers, and a public attorney - did not. A few people (including two government employees who...um... are against socialism lol) posted negative reactions.
I can't imagine that this activist version of Mafia Wars will do much to influence folks in the real world, if the Twitter involvement with the Iranian elections is any indication. Regardless, I'm pleased to see that so many people, including those I'd describe as "Eisenhower Republicans" (as opposed to "Palin Republicans") feel comfortable with a public healthcare option. It's evidence that this idea is going mainstream, despite what's being reported on the news. Well done, mystery meme generator!
And another brief article. Let's make it bigger folks.
That can be done. Folks just need to willing to buckle in for the details. More on the analysis of traffic that day on Facebook is coming as they release their numbers.
What makes it effective is that it cuts through all the lies and distortions to distill the argument for reform to its simplest form.
What is most noticeable is that none of my friends on the right have commented on these status updates. The silence is deafening. Hopefully it allows them to take a step back and realize that in their zeal to regain political power, they are trying to prevent what should be a basic human right.
Please start over on health care reform.
The only way to lower government’s costs while delivering high quality health care is to use “governments unfair advantages” by taking the job of raising and distributing money away from the insurance companies and using only government owned hospitals, operated by government employed doctors and care providers, for dispensing all government funded services.
A national sales tax is the cheapest way to raise money to pay for public health care.
To preserve a vibrant private health care industry all government mandates should be removed from private insurers and care providers.
The private system should no longer be required to deliver services to patients who can not pay.
Tort reform would do wonders for private health care.
Costs for all programs funded by The United States Government including Medicare and Medicaid, would be hundreds of billions of dollars cheaper annually if delivered through the new public system.
Everyone selecting public care would receive all care and medications free no restrictions, no insurance and no co pays required.
Businesses selecting the public option for their employees would no longer have any requirements to pay for or be involved with health care in any way.
Going back and forth between free public, and user purchased private care, may suit some people, and it would provide unlimited choices, ultimate freedom, and always free public care would be available when it is needed or desired to everyone who asks for it no restrictions.
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