Andy Griffith to pitch health care law to seniors

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Andy Griffith to pitch health care law to seniors

* Posted August 1, 2010 at midnight


Actor Andy Griffith has a new role: pitching President Barack Obama's health care law to seniors in a cable television ad paid for by Medicare.

The TV star - whose role as sheriff of Mayberry made him an enduring symbol of small-town American values - tells seniors that "good things are coming" under the health care overhaul, including free preventive checkups and lower-cost prescriptions for Medicare recipients.

Medicare says the national ad is part of its outreach to educate seniors about new benefits available next year. The ad is slated to run on channels seniors watch, such as the Weather Channel, CNN, Hallmark and Lifetime, at an initial cost of $700,000.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/aug/01/andy-griffith-to-pitch-health-care/

[Skittles]

1. good to see old Andy still kicking

trivia: he was born the same day as Marilyn Monroe :)

[proteus_lives]

3. +1

[Elwood P Dowd]

2. Andy did advertisements for Obama in 2008. (nm)

[mucifer]

10. wasn't Opie and the Fonz in that ad also?

[eridani]

4. Does the elimination of Medicare by the Catfood Commission count as a "new benefit"?

Or if not eliminating it, means-testing it so that people over 65 have to spend themselves down to poverty to get covered for ordinary care? Or raising the eligibility age to 70?

[Kahuna]

5. Ange!

:yourock:

[deacon]

6. k + r n/t

[DCBob]

7. I predict this one ad could could have a huge impact... especially on the 60+ crowd.

Brilliant whoever thought of it!

[Historic NY]

8. "If Andy says it okay, then it is"...right Andy.

[DCBob]

9. I heard the Repubs are going to counter this with an ad featuring Goober warning about death panels.

;)

[Historic NY]

11. Shazzam, shazzam............!