Prop C a Shoe-in in the Show-me State

Most sources predict, including poll from late July, that today Missourians will go to the polls and pass Prop C — ballot initiative giving their state govt. permission to block the individual mandate requirement under the new law that allows the federal govt. to require individuals to buy health insurance or be financially penalized.  What may become model legislation for other states only recently got attention from either the pro or con side.  Supporters of the measure turned it on in the last month and have messaged well and been better organized than the opposition — what opposition?  While a few influential interests have come out in opposition, there has been virtually no organized citizen effort — and, in these times, its all about populism and the perception of populism. Lesson here: working hard to pass a law if wasted work if supporters aren’t able to continue to advance the effort and at least try to fend off opposition. Change is hard work, harder still is protecting the change so it has time to take root. Pro progressive advocates (national advocates and state advocates across the nation) need to unite help our allies in threatened states.