Heather Box Profiles FM Friend Matt Singer & Youth as Savior of HCR

Heather Box the Deputy Director of the League of Young Voters has a piece up on the Huffington Post I highly recommend: Young Voters Are Obama's Best Hope for Healthcare Reform.

It features Matt Singer a good friend of FM who, like many youth faced problems being uninsured.

"When Matt Singer was 19 years old he decided he needed a break from college. He left Whitman College and moved home to Montana, working part time to support himself. He was doing fine until one day when he woke up with intense stomach pain and had to drive himself to the hospital. Three hours later, after a CAT scan and blood tests, it was confirmed that Matt had a kidney stone. Young and healthy, he recovered quickly and was back at work the next day. One week later he received a $1200 bill in the mail for the hospitals services. "When I opened the bill my mouth dropped to the ground, $1200 was what I was making in a month!" says Matt Singer."

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"A new SurveyUSA poll released yesterday shows that Singer is not alone in his call for reform. Singer's a member of the age group (18-34) that both expressed the strongest desire for reform and the strongest support for a public option. According to the SurveyUSA poll, 60% of those 18-34 support Obama's plan -- including 66% of 18 to 24-year-olds and 74% of 25 to 29-year-olds -- compared to 51% overall. "This is our generation's shot at real reform, we aren't going to let it pass us by," says Singer."

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