Grab your kernels and cast your vote. Inside the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fair, the issue is complicated.
"And the Hawkeye's aren't one of them," says Don Corrigan while he hands kernels to patrons at the AARP booth, "We're doing healthcare priorities. Would you like to vote," he asks a woman.
Whether it be lowering healthcare costs to making it more accessible, or improving Medicare and making prescription drugs more affordable, with two tiny kernels State Fair goers are tackling the massive issue of healthcare reform.
Fifty-nine-year-old Corrigan has no problem dishing out his time.
"What I have seen since 2002 when I first got my health insurance is premiums have doubled. Part of that is my age, every five years it automatically it goes into a different class."
Jim Palmer jumped at the opportunity to voice his opinion.
"I voted for lower healthcare costs because I can afford it as a single business person," Palmer said.
Others did the same, without a kernel.
"I'm a volunteer, I'm just asking for their opinion," said Corrigan's co-volunteer in the booth.
"Well then maybe you should put a little bowl out here that says we don't need healthcare reform here," a man opposed to healthcare reform said angrily.
"I think that some people are scared and I think part of it is they are misinformed," Corrigan said.
State AARP director Bruce Koeppl says recent town hall turmoil across the country and emotion at the State Fair booth proves people are engaged when it comes to issue of changing healthcare coverage.
"We come together, we figure out the facts, we decide what's good about it," said Koeppl, "Maybe what we can't live with and we have that conversation and we need to have that with healthcare because it impacts all of us."
So whether you grab a kernel, or take a pass, there's one more way to get involved in a debate which is far from over.
"And the Hawkeye's aren't one of them," says Don Corrigan while he hands kernels to patrons at the AARP booth, "We're doing healthcare priorities. Would you like to vote," he asks a woman.
Whether it be lowering healthcare costs to making it more accessible, or improving Medicare and making prescription drugs more affordable, with two tiny kernels State Fair goers are tackling the massive issue of healthcare reform.
Fifty-nine-year-old Corrigan has no problem dishing out his time.
"What I have seen since 2002 when I first got my health insurance is premiums have doubled. Part of that is my age, every five years it automatically it goes into a different class."
Jim Palmer jumped at the opportunity to voice his opinion.
"I voted for lower healthcare costs because I can afford it as a single business person," Palmer said.
Others did the same, without a kernel.
"I'm a volunteer, I'm just asking for their opinion," said Corrigan's co-volunteer in the booth.
"Well then maybe you should put a little bowl out here that says we don't need healthcare reform here," a man opposed to healthcare reform said angrily.
"I think that some people are scared and I think part of it is they are misinformed," Corrigan said.
State AARP director Bruce Koeppl says recent town hall turmoil across the country and emotion at the State Fair booth proves people are engaged when it comes to issue of changing healthcare coverage.
"We come together, we figure out the facts, we decide what's good about it," said Koeppl, "Maybe what we can't live with and we have that conversation and we need to have that with healthcare because it impacts all of us."
So whether you grab a kernel, or take a pass, there's one more way to get involved in a debate which is far from over.
