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I think we need to take

a lesson from some of the bloggers on Iran.

The power in what was done by Andrew Sullivan and the Huffington Post on Iran was the power of individual stories aggregated.  Any litigator knows the most powerful arguement is always rooted in a personal story.  

The story that we want to tell is of people foregoing treatment because they cannot afford it.  What we need to be able to do is build a newsfeed of stories like the stories that were contained in the Twitter feeds from Iran.  

At some point, someone is going to build that newsfeed, and when they do it will be far more powerful than the blogs have been to date.  

There is a moral imperative at the core of the health care debate. That moral imperative can only be driven home by the stories of those who go without care.  

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by: fladem @ Mon Jul 06, 2009 at 21:36:37 PM CDT