They say honesty is the best policy.
It’s certainly a better policy for young people than Obamacare.
Meet Alex and Martha, both approaching the “big six-oh” and stars of Jimmy Kimmel’s satirical Obamacare ad aimed at the young. They speak briefly about their healthcare needs as an older couple and lament their cost — “it’s not cheap,” Alex says of the medications he and his wife take. But to their relief, they don’t have to worry about that.
“Fortunately, we don’t have to pay for it,” Martha says.
“No, you do!” Alex follows up.
“That’s right: You young people are paying for our drugs and our doctors.”
“Not to mention our Social Security and our Medicare when we retire to Boca. And you know why?”
“Because you don’t vote.”
“And we do.”
The ad’s tagline, which is a jab about the young being uninformed: “The Affordable Care Act: Next Time, Maybe Pick Up a Newspaper.”
Watch Kimmel’s added (and apropos) commentary below — “They expect young people to buy insurance at the same time the Play Station 4 comes out?” — and be warned that Alex and Martha return at the end of the video to discuss, quite suggestively, this week’s highlight of government waste.
