Obamacare advocates have launched numerous campaigns to dupe young people into thinking it’s the best thing ever — ‘Got beersurance,’ anyone? — and they’ve reached new vocal highs and creative lows with the ‘Healthy Young America’ video contest.
Actor and off-and-on Obama aide Kal Penn announced the winners of the joint Young Invincibles-Department of Health and Human Services competition during a Google hangout on Monday. The effort aimed “to mobilize young people to help educate and inform one another about the Affordable Care Act.” The grand-prize winner: a take on Jesse J’s “Price Tag” with pro-Obamacare lyrics that ask the listener to stop being so stupid and fork over a bloated sum of money for administration-approved insurance already.
(Really, the adjoining placement of the lines Affordable Care Act / Don’t worry about the price tag is richly ironic.)
That video belonged to the ‘original song performance category,’ and there were winners in two other categories: the “You Are Not Invincible” category and ‘animation.’ The winner of the former resembled an Allstate ad for the first 30 seconds before providing a rundown of Obamacare provisions and ending with a flat-line graphic. (What’s the message? Ignore Obamacare and people die?)
Here’s the ‘animation’ category winner:
The contest, which began in August, awarded $30,000 in prize money.
(Charlie Spiering has more videos over at the Washington Examiner.)
