As the Obama administration woefully attempts to fix its ailing website, healthcare.gov, one insurance company is taking advantage of the government’s grim situation and capitalizing on the joke that is the Affordable Care Act’s implementation — a fart joke that is.
Iowa’s Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield released three videos Tuesday making fun of the online health insurance marketplace which — when actually working — is supposed to allow Americans to sign up for health insurance. The ads portray three situations where things just aren’t working, much like healthcare.gov. But instead of waiting around for a busted website, Wellness Blue Cross and Blue Shield reminds consumers there are other places to purchase health insurance.
“Things don’t always work like they’re supposed to do,” the ads state. “Good thing the government exchange isn’t the only place to buy health insurance.”
The video then goes on to direct consumers to Wellness Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s website, which works just fine.
Each ad takes on a different theme: one shows a doctor taking a patients’ blood pressure, but when squeezing the bulb, the device emits a fart sounds; another demonstrates a patient having his reflexes checked, but the wrong leg responds; and the third shows a struggling patient attempting to give a urine sample, except he can’t quite open the jar.
Check out the three ads below:
