Obamacare In Spanish, Cartographers vs. The World, and More
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 9.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm Bob Garfield. |
| 0:15.0 | With the more or less sort of absolute enrollment deadline set for Monday, |
| 0:20.0 | the Obama administration is trying |
| 0:22.4 | every which way to get its message out about the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. |
| 0:28.9 | This ranges from ordinary TV ads, such as this endorsement from the NBA's biggest star. |
| 0:35.5 | Hi, I'm LeBron James. |
| 0:41.4 | I know how important it is to take care of yourself, your friends, and your family. |
| 0:45.4 | That's why I want to tell you about the health insurance marketplace at health care.gov. To presidential calls on quirkier celebrities like Zach Galafenakis of funny or die.com's between two ferns. I don't have a phone. I'm off the grid. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't want you people, like, looking at my text, if you know what I mean? |
| 0:59.0 | First of all, Zach, nobody's interested in your texts. |
| 1:02.0 | But second of all, you can do it in person. |
| 1:05.0 | And the law means that insurers can't discriminate against you |
| 1:08.0 | if you've got a pre-existing condition anymore. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, but what about, what about this though? |
| 1:12.6 | That's disgusting. |
| 1:14.6 | How long have you had that? |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, just four months. |
| 1:18.6 | Really? |
| 1:19.6 | Spider bites. |
| 1:20.6 | I got attacked by spiders. |
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