Pro-Obamacare ads targeting millennials stir controversy in Colorado

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Reasonable or too PC?



A new round of advertisements unveiled by supporters of Colorado's health insurance exchange has ignited controversy that rippled through social media Tuesday and launched debate over their portrayal of women.

In one of the most discussed "Got insurance?" ads, produced by the liberal ProgressNow Colorado and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, a young woman holds a packet of birth-control pills and stands next to a young man, his hand wrapped around her waist.

So what's she thinking?

"OMG, he's hot! Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers," read the words in the risqué advertisement.

While the groups say the aim is to encourage young people to enroll in the state's new health insurance exchange — a pillar to President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act — some have said it belittles women. It also adds to the partisan back-and-forth over the new health care law.

Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_24509632/pro-obamacare-ads-targeting-millennials-stir-controversy-colorado

(ETA) Well well well...OF COOOOOURSE! Rush Limbaugh used these ads to say "See I Told Ya So" about Sandra Fluke.

[nykym]

1. Oh and the

right wings ad with good ole uncle Sam
is so health care neutral!

[bigdarryl]

2. OH PLEASE!!! the rethugs have been belittling women since they took over the state houses

The Governorships and the Congress.PLEASE like they really give a fuck about woman.There just upset that the ad is targeted at young people to sign up for insurance which they don't want.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. 20 somethings having SEX? WHY I NEVER!

[Wait Wut]

4. A woman is never allowed to get turned on.

It's the 21st Century...we don't know that by now? It's disgusting to think that a young woman would be turned on by some attractive (I'm not calling him hot...not my type) guy that is in desperate need of a shave. And, look how she's dressed!!!!11! If you look hard enough you could imagine cleavage! And cover those arms!!


Idiots. I'm more concerned that she's possibly considering sleeping with him without a condom. Although, she could just be a very bright young lady that is doing a double-check with pills AND condoms! Go get him, sweetie!!!

[mercuryblues]

6. women also have

the right to bare arms!

[KoKo]

5. I think this ad is to inflame the RW TeaPartiers and Christian Fundamentalists.

Susie and Nate "Hot to Trot" is also offensive to this Liberal Democrat. It makes this about Sex and and how fast you can get it. It makes the female look like she can't wait to get it on with a random guy and the tiny disclaimer about using "condoms and common sense" to protect yourself from STD's" seems like an afterthought.

I think it trivializes the availability of insurance for Birth Control pills which are used needed for "family planning" and for medical conditions where hormone adjustments are needed.

I think it's pretty offensive and demeaning to both males and females. I would almost think it was an Ad put out by the RW.