Fat Joe Pushes Elected Officials for Price Transparency in Healthcare: ‘Power to the Patients’
Fat Joe’s commitment to healthcare price transparency is unwavering. With 32 days until the presidential election, the Bronx native is launching a PSA calling on elected officials to stop the price gouging and “robbing all of us.”
The 54-year-old is looking to bring the power back to the people and is putting pressure on those in office. Teaming up with unions, workers and employers, Fat Joe’s healthcare price transparency PSA went live on Thursday (Oct. 3).
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“To every elected official and politician in America, the people stand united,
desperate for you to listen,” he says in the spot. “If you’re not advocating for prices and transparency in healthcare, you’re compromising every single American across this country.”
Joe continues: “Because when we can’t see prices, hospitals, insurers, and their middlemen charge us whatever they want. Our very own healthcare system is robbing all of us. We just need the prices. That’s how our economy works!”
With more than 100 million Americans mired in medical debt, the “Lean Back” rapper hopes to see political leaders take a more honest approach when it comes to crafting a more affordable health care system.
“If you want to do right by workers, employers, and unions, then you’ve gotta to do right by the people they represent and the families who depend upon them,” Joe, 54, (born Joseph Cartagena) demands. “And we gotta hear it. Prices now! Power to the Patients.”
Fat Joe’s latest PSA is part of an ongoing advocacy campaign with Power to the Patients looking to garner even more momentum toward significant legislative change for Americans. Before leaving office in 2021, President Donald Trump’s executive order went into effect requiring hospitals to make prices of health services publicly available.
President Joe Biden followed-up with an executive order of his own in 2023 demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services enforce it. However, a nonprofit called Patient Rights Advocate discovered that most American hospitals are refusing to comply with the rules outlined.
Watch the clip below.
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