Why aren’t young people without health insurance teabagging?!
I was reading this post on the AFL-CIO blog about all the young people under the age of 35 without health insurance. They are working mind you, but they are not insured. A couple of years ago I would have counted myself as one of them.
As the AFL-CIO report, “Young Workers: A Lost Decade,” recently found, some 31 percent of workers under age 35 have no health insurance–even if they have jobs. Millions more young workers have insufficient coverage. It’s a dangerous situation, and too many young workers would be left bankrupt if hit by an accident or unexpected illness.
Ari A. Matusiak, founder of Young Invincibles, a health reform advocacy group, says in a new AFL-CIO Point of View guest column that these young workers need health care reform now, and that they need to join together to fight for it.
They should be turning out en masse at any hearing on healthcare reform. The only reason teabaggers are attracting the attention they do is because they organized a little bit. I don’t care anything about the teabaggers, their opinions and views mean nothing to me, but what I do care about are these people without health insurance.
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