Dear Sarah Silverman: Can we get a ‘Great Schlep’ for health care?

Dear Sarah Silverman,

Hi hunny-bunny. I decided to take a break from planning our life of eternal wedded bliss today and talk about something more serious.

Remember that awesome viral thing you did on the Internet last year? No, silly, not “I’m fucking Matt Damon.” I mean the video you did for the Obama campaign, “The Great Schlep,” about telling your Jewish grandma and grandpa to vote for President Obama:

Boy, what a difference that made! The Democrats finally shook off their Florida curse and won the state’s electoral votes by about 200,000 ballots. Obama got 52% of voters aged 45-64, according to CNN, and among the really old bubbes and zadies, he got 48% of the vote, which might have been a lot worse if more kids hadn’t called up Nana at your urging.

Well here we are a year later – Obama is President, and we’re fighting over health care reform. Poll after poll shows there is a generational divide over the President’s health care debate, with more than 50% of seniors opposing Obama’s proposals, and 50% of younger people supporting them. Basically, Grandmas and Grandpas everywhere are focusing on what they’ve already got, and not thinking about what the rest of society needs now and into the future.

And this is where you come in: I think that means it’s time for another Great Schlep, with you as our lovely spokeswoman.

So what do you say, Sarah? Are you game? How about you record another video that encourages all us adult, affordable-insurance-needing grandkids to get on the phone or on a plane and say, “Nana, I promise not to turn you into food Soylent Green-style when you get sick.”

You game for that? I think it could help.

Can’t wait to watch it. Xoxo lover,

-MR