Advocacy Videos: September 2009 Archives

MoveOn's New Ad: Leave Rich Health Insurance Executives Alone

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MoveOn.org, the liberal activist group that just yesterday turned 11 years old, has enlisted a few Hollywood actors to deliver a sarcastic attack on the health insurance industry. The faux PSA stars Will Ferrell, Mad Men's Jon Hamm and that guy from Scrubs (I'm not a doctor, I just play one on TV!) giving tongue-in-cheek pleas to protect wealthy health insurance executives from health care reform. "Insurance companies are detail-oriented enough to deny claims for things like typos," snarks Ferrell. "If you spell something wrong, do you really deserve surgery?"

It's hard to see the ad having much of a reach beyond the base of people who already support health care reform. Funny as the ad is, MoveOn + Hollywood actors aren't exactly at the top of Republicans' influence list.