More than 500 Hollywood writers and producers are working with senior advocacy group AARP to bring attention to the need to provide affordable health care, the groups will announce today.
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Divided We Fail, an AARP campaign that wants to find bipartisan ways to make health care affordable, will work with the Hollywood Radio & Television Society, the Entertainment Industry Foundation and the Motion Picture & Television Fund to make sure health care messages are included in the story lines of popular TV shows and movies.
"People are worried," says Nancy LeaMond, AARP's executive vice president of social impact. "They're putting their money into day-to-day survival. We started thinking what was really important was to reach out through popular culture. There's nothing more effective."
About 49 million Americans don't have health insurance, according to AARP statistics. And more middle-class people file for bankruptcy because of health care-related expenses than for any other reason, the group says.
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