Harry and Louise want everyone “at the table” when it comes to solving America’s health care crisis. And they’re so … affable.
FamiliesUSA, which advocates universal health care, called them the characters that “helped derail health care reform for the past 15 years.”
Now Harry and Louise are back — and they’re singing a very different tune.
Here’s the new video:
Today is National Aviation Day.
I didn’t realize that until a bit ago when a sharp aviation-supplier executive brought it to my attention. Here in the Air Capital, we should take note.
National Aviation Day was established by a presidential proclamation in 1939 to celebrate the development of human flight. Aug. 19, Orville Wright’s birthday, was designated as the anniversary.
Now, if we could only get the day off.
I’m working on our “Five Questions” feature for this week’s Business Today. It’s on Michael Gates Gill, the speaker for next week’s chamber Chairman’s Breakfast, who insists that his rather spartan existence and his 20-hours-a-week job at Starbucks trump the days when he was a top-paid ad exec or even when he lived in a 25-bedroom house growing up.
“I’m just reporting back, ‘Hey, I’m a lot happier now without a lot of that stuff,’” Gill said.
To which, of course, I replied, “See, I’m willing to give the 25 rooms a shot.”
Still, Gates clearly has some lessons to share. Check out this Thursday’s Business Today, or you might consider attending Tuesday’s breakfast. Call the chamber at 268-1127 for details.
From the marketers of SpinVox, a voice-to-text service, in my Inbox today:
SpinVox Offers New Guidelines to Help Users Practice ‘Safe Text’
That just cracked me up. But I don’t get out much.
The iconic TV couple largely credited with defeating Clinton’s proposed health care plan back in 1993 are being brought back to life today in new television ads that promote health care reform as the top domestic priority for the next Administration.
Harry and Louise, played by actors Harry Johnson and Louise Caire Clark, play a middle class couple despairing over the state of health care. The commercials, paid for by the Health Insurance Association of America, were so effective, they’re often credited with forever changing how public relations techniques can influence change.
New commercials will be revealed today at the National Press Club in Washington, with the support of several groups, including the Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Hospital Association, Catholic Health Association, Families USA, National Federation of Independent Business, and America’s Health Insurance Plans.
Says the group of the new commercials:
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.”
Can’t remember the old commercials? Check out this from YouTube: