Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, Valerie June appear in health-care advocacy Super Bowl ad

A new PSA set to air during Sunday's National Football League championship game broadcast will feature the Jelly Roll, the Grammy-nominated artist born Jason DeFord, alongside a pair of fellow Recording Academy favorites: 2024 Best Country Album Grammy-winner Lainey Wilson and 2023 Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Valerie June.

The trio is partnering with Power to the Patients, a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy group that, in a press release, notes that it is "dedicated to creating a more affordable, accessible, and equitable healthcare system through price transparency."

Watch Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson and Valerie June's ad

The PSA will air on television during the big game in Washington, D.C., and on digitalplatforms nationwide. Power to the Patients will also have plane pull banners over LasVegas during the weekend.

Power to the Patients: Country music stars speak about price of health care

"Hospitals and insurance companies all around the United States are stealing our future by looting every patient, worker, employer, and family across the country," said Jelly Roll.

Wilson adds, "American Citizens in need of care are afraid to enter a hospital. Members of Congress, we need actual prices and true transparency in healthcare."

Valerie June, a Type 1.5 Diabetic, adds a powerful personal anecdote:

"Before being diagnosed as diabetic, I was working seven days a week and about twelve hours a day across two jobs and playing music in bars at night," she said.. "I was saving money to make a record and I saved about $50,000. I saved it slowly, but when I got sick, it went fast. That bill from the emergency room alone was $30k and I didn't even get admitted. Then the bills just kept coming. I found myself in a situation where I physically couldn't work. I was bed-ridden for nine months and that wiped out the rest of the money I had saved for my dream to record a record. Transparency is key so we are able to make informed choices and choose what is the best situation individually about our care and to ensure that we are not being overcharged."

This commercial is released in tandem with Jelly Roll's recent appearance in Washington, D.C., alongside 2000s-era rap favorites and philanthropists Fat Joe and Wyclef Jean for a "Power to the Patients" event at the Hamilton Live venue.

That performance occurred a day prior to his testimony at Capitol Hill's Dirksen Senate Office Building, during an open, hybrid-format session of the United States Senate's Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs entitled, "Stopping the Flow of Fentanyl: Public Awareness and Legislative Solutions."

What has Power to the Patients accomplished?

Of late, Power to the Patients' efforts have yielded a bipartisan group of Senators introduced legislation to strengthen and expand healthcare price transparency requirements (S.3548) in December.

This bill would empower all healthcare consumers- patients, employers, unions, and workers- to shop for the right care, be protected from overcharges, and lower their care and coverage costs. The savings could then go toward higher earnings and wages.

This Senate legislation was built on a similar bill, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act (H.R.5378), passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and took steps to empower patients to choose the best care at the lowest prices.

Jelly Roll, June and Wilson's PSA is part of an ongoing Power to the Patients grassroots campaign to raise awareness about passing legislation to strengthen, expand, and make permanent healthcare price transparency rules.

Hip-hop performers Fat Joe, French Montana, Chuck D have recorded a similar ad.

More information is located at powertothepatients.org.

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