Harry and Louise Stand Up For Health Care 15 Years Later
A lot if you chickadees who read this blog might not remember the Harry and Louise ads (not be confused with Thelma and Louise) that helped derail the Clinton’s plans for overhauling health care in 1993, but I do ( well, pretty much anyway). Well, a bunch of concerned non-profits remember the Harry and Louise ads and came up with a genious way to get attention back on health care reform–bringing Harry and Louise back for a health care ad redo. There’s even a “making of the ad” video in which Harry and Louise are interviewed about how they see the issue of health care reform differently since their iconic ads. Families USA has created the Stand Up For Health Care campaign. From their press release:
Five Organizations Come Together to Promote Health Care Reform as the Top Domestic Priority for the Next President and Congress
Washington, D.C. – Harry and Louise, the iconic couple featured in ads to defeat health care reform in 1993-1994, will be back on television to demand that health care reform return to the top of the agenda.
Airing throughout the Democratic and Republican conventions, the famous couple at the kitchen table will remind America that they are still waiting “for a better way.” In light of the growing health care affordability crisis in the U.S. and the lack of coverage for many Americans, they will promote health care reform as the top domestic priority for the next President and Congress.
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Catholic Health Association (CHA), Families USA, and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), organizations with historically divergent views about health care reform, have come together to sponsor the advertisement.
Health care should be THE PRIORITY for the next president and congress.
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Yes, we need health care to be a major priority and we need to act quickly. Too many people are suffering right now with no hope in sight.
Thanks for posting this. I didn’t know they brought H & L back!
The line from the famous anti-war song, “Blowing in the Wind” - “how many deaths will it take till he knows
that too many people have died?” - is also applicable in some ways to the countless unnecessary and premature deaths resulting from the terrible state of health care in this country.
I hope these ads are an early sign that things may be changing for the better, but I know there is a great reservoir of callousness among the “haves” which makes me always remember to not expect too much.
The URL for my last comment somehow came out wrong. I think it’s right now (it should end in “5131″).