This is unsurprising when you consider the surge in interest in health policy among young people, one-third of whom are uninsured.

Young and uninsured turn to ... Facebook | By: Ben Adler | Nov 26, 2007 07:01 PM EST

In the year between his graduation from college and his first year in law school, Jeff Traylor, 25, worked in a restaurant and was similar to approximately 44 million Americans in this respect: He had no health insurance.

As a waiter, Traylor worked fewer than 30 hours a week and thus did not qualify for insurance as a full-time employee.

“I had to go to low-income clinics,” said Traylor, now a second-year student at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Ore.

“That’s $130 for a visit to get antibiotics for a sinus infection, plus the cost of the drug. I could afford it. But some people cannot.” ...
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Spurred by his own experience and by his concern for the uninsured, Traylor created a group on the social networking site Facebook to promote universal health care.

His is one of more than 20 groups on Facebook dedicated to advocating expanded government health coverage, and many of them have hundreds of members.
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This is unsurprising when you consider the surge in interest in health policy among young people, one-third of whom are uninsured. ...
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And the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan institution that researches health care in the U.S., found that 42 percent of young people are very worried about being able to afford the health services they think they need. ....