Johnson’s Daughter Asks Seniors to Fight for Health Reform
Lynda Johnson Robb, the daughter of former President Lyndon Johnson, says that now is the time to pass health care reform and complete the promise of generations.
In a new video delivered to members of the Alliance for Retired Americans in Pittsburgh for the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, Robb says her father’s fight for Medicare should inspire us to go further in building a better health care system.
Harkening back to the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and her father, Robb noted that they would want to make the most of the opportunity to add to the historic achievements of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security:
They would say that ensuring all Americans have guaranteed, affordable health care is the missing piece of the modern American social contract, the unfinished business of their legacies.
This is also the unfinished business of our generation. I urge America’s seniors, and all Americans, to finish this project by working for affordable health care for all.
