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Illinois Taps The Onion To Sell Obamacare
While we realize that newsflow over the past few years has taken a decided turn for the surreal, we are sad (or, alternatively, delighted) to announce that we are dead serious when we report that Illinois governor Pat Quinn has now tapped The Onion - that would be the famous satiric website - to sell Obamacare. Perhaps we should not be surprised: after we previously revealed that The Onion served as the mystery source of economic insight by such intellectual economist titans as Paul Krugman and Larry Summers, the time may have come come to surrender to the great wave of absurdity that has washed over this nation, and admit that when it comes to pitching idiotic policies, self-referential satire may be the only option left in the arsenal of the central planners.
Acording to Crains Chicago, Gov. Pat Quinn is partnering with the Onion to persuade young invincibles” to sign up for health care insurance — before it's too late under Obamacare.
More on this surreal development from the source:
Beginning today, Onion Labs, the creative services division of Chicago-based Onion, will run banners ads on its website of a man forced to sell his action figures to pay his medical bills because he didn't buy health insurance, according to a statement today from Get Covered Illinois, the state's health insurance exchange.
So-called young invincibles, healthy people in their 20s and 30s, are crucial to balancing out the costly sick and elderly people buying plans on the Illinois health insurance exchange.
“We know that to effectively reach Young Invincibles — who are 53 percent of our uninsured residents in Illinois — we have to work with non-traditional, and especially digital, sources for news and entertainment," Jennifer Koehler, executive director of Get Covered Illinois, said in statement. "That's where the Onion fits right into our outreach strategy.”
The Onion also will create a video, an editorial and a customer “news” section about Get Covered Illinois that will appear online as the March 31 deadline to buy health insurance approaches.
“This is a great opportunity for Onion Labs to work with Get Covered Illinois, and do what the Onion does best — create irreverent-yet-relevant comedy and put it to work for an organization that wants to reach millennials,” Onion CEO Steve Hannah said in the statement.
Actually what the Onion does best is to capture the idiocy of people through the lens of stires. In this case, it has most certainly succeeded.
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GO FUCK YOURSELF .GOV
Doesn't he have to sell them anyways? Without the insurance he would actually be able to keep more of them.
Listen, when big projects like this go bad, they go really bad as we see here ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X34ad1eJ2Bk
Avoid if you don't like the odd swear word.
obamacare has electrolytes......HOAP
The Onion is laughing all the way to the bank.
If you are a WHITE GUN OWNER the DHS and ONG views YOU as an ANTI-GOVERNMENT DOMESTIC TERRORIST and THE ENEMY.
May as well live up to the hype.
http://americandictators.blogspot.com/2014/02/ohio-national-guard-framin...
You Got Insurance ?
non-kool-aid drinking flatlanders call Quinn "potatohead".
heres what kills me
they are actually telling the millenials, hey sign up so we can afford the old, because if you dont overpay to support them, they might have to foot their own bills
so tell me, are the millenials that frickkin stupid?
can they even afford to pay someone elses bill?
especially people who never planned for their future, but have arrived there none the less
i wonder, if they had known what was in it, would they have passed it?
pelosi should just fall over dead right the fuck now(of a pre existing condition...so stupid, forgot to breathe)
If someone hates you for no reason, give that motherfucker a reason.
"healthy people in their 20s and 30s" = moving targets... Better hurry Barry.
If you are a white gun owner you are viewed as right wing even if you are a Libertarian keep that in mind.
Ohio National Guard Training Envisions Right-Wing Terrorismhttp://mediatrackers.org/ohio/2014/02/10/ohio-national-guard-training-en...
The Onion should do a piece on this.
Put this probe in your mouth, this one in your ear, and this one in your ass,,,no..wait, THIS one in your mouth......
has anyone seen the magic ads hucking obamacare, he doesnt even mention aids.
i think that should be his tag line "i beat aids, and so can you..with obama care".
Now the Onion??? It makes me want to CRY!!!
illinois taps the onion?
ooowwwwwwwwccccchhhhhhhh
i love me some o dat obamacare...
Illinois IS the onion.
Yeah
Man without health insurance is forced to sell action figures to pay medical bills.
This is funny because no grown man should be forced to trade his doll collection for emergency medical care - right?
Here's another good one:
Area Man Introduces Pat Quinn's Head to His Ass
you're what a child becomes when imagination and wonder are crushed out of him
So it looks like the Onion also works for the establishment messaging system. Not unlike the Daily Show which also uses the cover of Satire and comedy to deliver politcal disinformation.
the corporate fascist empire controls about 99.9% of all info on the planet at this point. Even the total lunatic fringe sites, at least 2/3 are deliberate disinfo to discredit the real thing. evil is afoot on this planet.
It may well be corporate fascism which enables the leftist political disinformation on the MSM. Make no mistake about it, it's political and it is leftist messaging. Big corps benefit from their marriage to Big gov, I don't disagree. But the political messsage is always the same, it's the same statist message of the gov is here to help you.
A ponzi scheme is over when their are no new entrants to pay for the existing members
Self-depricating satire is a wonderful personality trait of self-confident, yet humble and gregarious people.
When you're a fuckwad statist, though, it just makes you look like more of a fuckwad.
Give me a break, bitchez! (Oh, brother.)
Satire imitating satire.
Yup, we've gone full retard.
It's true. Great satire reveals hidden, painful truths.
Past the reality event horizon
take left at mobius strip of lies
Ouroboros of credability will be on the left.
Fuckin' sell-outs ! I remember those days sitting on top of railway cars off Williamson St. in Madison.
Fuckin' fuck sell-outs!
Fucks!
Oh yeah,
Get Fucked you Fuckin' Fuck Sell-out Fucks!
.gov: Clueless as ever.
Sinister as ever. This article shows the mechanisms of thought control they have and use on unsuspecting folks.
The fact that they have to sell it says everything you need to know.
Barrycare = huge fail
keep pushing the rope Barry - dumb ass communist
So-called young invincibles, healthy people in their 20s and 30s, are crucial to balancing out the costly sick and elderly people buying plans on the Illinois health insurance exchange.
And yet Zero Hedge tells me there's no war on young people, and we're all just lazy stupid Obama voters who deserve what we get because we're the most entitled and socialist generation evah. *eye roll*
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
As a tail end Baby Boomer who has been completely screwed over by the kleptoligarchy, you have my sympathy.
There's a lot more "it's your fault" age-battle coming where that came from.
Bring it. Most invincibles are so afraid of bang sticks they will only ever get near one when it is pointed at them.
With $12,000 deductibles there is 0 reason for someone in their twenties to have insurance.
Why?
Don't you ever play on the train tracks?
Make homemade pyrotechnical displays?
Walk through Detroit?
Um, no.
Todays kids with the i-everything gives 2-shits about going outside.
Unless the iBox blows up on them, alls well
Oh but it's WORSE than that.12,000 deductible for the bronze package AND 200-250 a month premium. And they wonder why the kids aren't signing up.
Wait for the list that is exempt form coverage:
1. Any drug or alcohol related injury.
2. Any sports related injury.
3. Any motor vehicle related injury.
4. Any injury sustained in a domestic argument.
5. Any injury from a race related attack, unless the victim is black.
You forgot:
6. Injuries suffered within a structure.
7. Injuries suffered outside a structure.
8. Injuries that happened in the dark.
9. Injuries that happened in the daylight.
Makes me wonder when .gov will hire a real ad agency to plug Obamacare.
I realize they're trying to be relevent to the yutes and all but it doesn't seem to be working, mostly because what they're selling is such bullshit.
But hey, they could at least give it a decent try.
Has the Onion gone over to the dark side? Have we lost all hope?
"Onion jumps shark," says area man.
The next thing you'll see, is Obunga Care marketed like those 'Direct T.V.' commercials.
" If you don't get off your couch, you'll shit yourself."
" When you shit yourself you get really mad."
"When you get really mad your blood pressure rises."
" High blood pressure will cause you to have a fucking stroke."
" Get Obunga Care so you don't stroke out serf!"
Perfect parody Yen... I know those ads are supposed to be funny, but they make me cringe.
Next up will be online-college type of ads "I joined Obamacare, and now I'm a successful businessperson in action figure resale. You can join in your pajamas too!"
I sold my pajamas to buy action figures. I guess I'm fucked.
" If you don't get off your couch, you'll shit yourself."
Funniest damn thing I've read in a long time. +9 million
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Barbie is not an action figure unless Ken is involved.
We have achieved unity. Everyone can go home and bask in the pure, unadulterated insanity, at least until there is no more food to eat.
I have just said on the Barry Vs Hollande thread, we have entered the stage of stupidity....
Jesus fucking christ, prophetic or what......
;-)
Why not just threaten these "invincibles" with internment, or something really scary? If you want them to be fearful, show them Freddy Kruger, not The Onion.
..."well I had to spend two days in the hospital and they sent me a bill for $16, 841.12. Maaaaan, I'm gonna have to sell my collection of action figures. Let's see, I have 6 GI Joes and 3 Bill Clintons, and 1 Tom Cruise. If I sell them for $18,000 that would give me some extra bread, right?"...
I really like the ad slots healthcare.gov has taken out on the morning music video programs on CMT. Talk about missing the mark for your target demographic...
but it is such a good deal why do I need someone to tell me....
Is the criminal joke the joke or the other way around?!
How do you try to sell something when Obama keeps moving the deadline out several years
Hulce reacts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjmmjXGwarU
Can I pay for my ObamaCare with this currency ? The guy at the Onion told me I could.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/11/al-qaeda-linked-group-reportedly-started-printing-its-own-currency-in-iraq-with-guess-whose-photo/
This has gotten rediculous. I need to drink more tap water and join dumbfukistan
Selling all bitcoins, its over.
I really enjoy how they're mocking the fact that they have systematically impoverished an entire generation.
The rollout strategy for the ACA has been to bipass traditional advertising venues and to inlist, with hefty government donations and payments to healthcare advocates and community organizind outreach centers, as the primary communicators. This is their belief that only common folks can relate and communicate with other common folks.
Check out the organizations in your state who have received federal dollars to hire and train the "ACA Navigators." You will then trully uderstand that all of this was set up by design.
? Mark Twain
resorting to satire for propaganda? that's ironic
sarc off
I have written more than once- The Onion isn't parody, it is a news organization broadcasting from the future via a wormhole.
Hasbro introduces new Transformer: With minimal movement, Health Care Insurance converts into Unaffordable Disease.
First, we deal with real articles talking about Chinese WalMarts selling Five Spice Donkey Meat that actually has fox meat in it, with some Chinese guy wondering what the big deal is because fox meat costs more than donkey meat, and now we have The Onion pitching Obamacare. It truly has come full circle.
Correct me if I'm right.
Why would a "young invincible" want or need health care insurance if he is invincible.
All the scum politicians seem to build their political careers in Illinois.
Groomed to spend everything and infinitely raise taxes.
One step closer to insanity. Onion takes a huge step backwards. They are border-line sellouts. They SHOULD say, "Thanks, but No Thanks Barry". That would be respect. But they are bought and paid for now. Onion was great. but now, they are grouped in with the paid shills. Insert Travis Bickle speech to Betsy: " ONION--- you're just like all the rest of 'em. You are going to die in Hell!"
The ONLY thread left, literally and figuratively, barely attached to sanity, is ZH. If Obunga Care banner adds were to ever grace these pages, I will know the machines have taken over, and I will drive straight to the fema camp, after turning in my guns and sending in a contribution to Hellary '16! It will all be over then.
(unless this was all just an Onion joke that went right over).