The National Football League declined to participate in the promotion of Obamacare, but that doesn’t mean the healthcare legislation has struck out with all sports.
At a Washington Nationals baseball game on Tuesday of this week, mascot Teddy Roosevelt was featured in a Obamacare promotional video with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The video, which was played at Nationals Park before the home team took on the Pittsburgh Pirates, shows Teddy running into the stadium and looking up his healthcare options online, as well as calling the information line on his phone.
“If Teddy can do it, so can you,” Sebelius says at the end of the clip.
Tuesday’s game was “HHS Night” and the video was only played for that reason and will not be used again, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“As part of the annual HHS group outing to the Nationals game, the Nationals incorporated the HHS community into the evening in several ways, as they do with other large group events. Our participation included the opportunity to throw out the first pitch and create a PSA for use exclusively on the big screen on that night,” said HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters told The Journal.
Watch the video below:
(h/t The Hill)
