The AMA has an ad campaign about how one out of seven people don't have health insurance. They lost my attention when they got to the part about "a son with a heart ailment". It's not that I don't have sympathy for a family with that kind of medical problems, it's that I was wondering why they even bothered to put a bike helmet on the kid if they weren't going to have him wear it correctly. (They = the AMA and the ad company.)
Okay, I'm cynical enough already that my first thought when I saw this commercial was that the AMA wanted us all insured so that doctors could be sure of being paid. Dumb crap like the bike helmet being worn incorrectly is just an extra annoyance. It looks as though someone wasn't paying attention.
Posted by marybeth at January 12, 2008 04:03 PM Box of Rocks