New Online Tool Aims to Help You Have That Big Medicare for All Talk at This Year's Thanksgiving Feast

Are you ready to have that Medicare for All conversation with the person you might love but also be dreading?

Just in time for the Holiday Season, National Nurses United—the largest labor union of nurses in the United States—has put out a new online tool in the form of a “chat bot” that allows people to perfect their Medicare for All and healthcare justice chops for those upcoming family dinners and social gatherings where not everyone is on the same page about the need to overhaul the nation’s for-profit system and replace it with one that puts everybody in and leaves nobody out.

“Most people connect with politics on an emotional and personal basis,” explains NNU on their website. “Sharing stories is typically more powerful than reciting facts and statistics.”

The online tool—available here—allows users to “encounter a combative friend or family member and be given options to respond.” Starting with a prompt and then a set of possible responses, it walks  through a hypothetical conversation, offering helpful talking points and facts along the way. For example:

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In their post, the NNU writes:

In a Thanksgiving Day op-ed for Common Dreams in 2018, Dr. Sanjeev K. Sriram, host of podcast about public policy and health justice called “Dr. America,” the holiday in the U.S. is the perfect time to talk about how the nation’s healthcare systems works—and how it doesn’t work.