Did Senate repeal-only vote justify mass collective grass roots activism?

David Leonhardt offered an op-ed today urging that citizen’s become aggressive in calling their legislators as an emergency to stop the Obamacare repeal, New York Times link here. 

I don’t think these mass actions work reliably when there are too many of them for every issue, so I don’t respond to them.  This one could be different if people are really going to lose coverage altogether.