A new racy campaign called “Got Insurance” was released today with advertisements that are intended to tout the free birth control component of the Obamacare health care plan. The ads are bathed in sexual overtones, with one ad having a woman declare: “Let’s Hope He’s as Easy as This Free Birth Control.”
Another ad has a young woman hoping to score with popular actor Ryan Gosling now that she has her own free birth control.
But conservatives on Twitter were quick to bash the campaign and the absurdity of offering free birth control in exchange for increasing health insurance premiums on most Americans or canceling their insurance.
Some of those responses appear below:
You’re going to pay $500 more a month in health insurance for “free” birth control. But you live in the reality based community. #gotit
— Kristina Ribali (@KristinaRibali) November 12, 2013
So, those “bro-surance” and now “ho?surance” ads are an elaborate anti-ObamaCare campaign, right?
— RB (@RBPundit) November 12, 2013
The #ThanksObamacare campaign seems mostly interested in getting really stupid people to buy really expensive insurance
— Stephen Gutowski (@collegepolitico) November 12, 2013
Sure, ladies, you may be paying $2,000 more a year in premiums, but remember the *free* birth control! https://t.co/oJFDelT32t
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) November 12, 2013
It was only a matter of time. #Hosurance #Obamacare cc @jonfavs @TVietor08 pic.twitter.com/iuAP5lniYH
— GOP Fashionista (@GOPfashionista) November 12, 2013
MT @DanFosterType: The contempt in which the mandarins hold the very people who ensured their victory pic.twitter.com/od0blwqFGF
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) November 12, 2013
ho-surance RT @sarahkliff: From the creators of the Brosurance ad comes this new Obamacare ad for the ladies. pic.twitter.com/3fqMTbUmTS
— Michael Goldfarb (@thegoldfarb) November 12, 2013
Everyone involved in this ad campaign should be fired. The developer, the copywriter, the photographer, everyone. https://t.co/FVkjVptubw
— Michael Deppisch (@deppisch) November 12, 2013
Oh for crying out loud. RT @BecketAdams: Where do these ladies exist? MT @sarahkliff: pic.twitter.com/9MyNUQEegP
— Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) November 12, 2013
If I was out with a girl and she started brandishing her birth control in front of me, I would go to the bathroom and pull the fire alarm.
— S.M (@redsteeze) November 12, 2013
The next round of brosurance ads should just say; “F*** you, pay me.”
— Daniel Foster (@DanFosterType) November 12, 2013
Brosurance: “Let’s drink!” Lady-brosurance: “I can get laid!” Does this make anyone else uncomfortable?
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) November 12, 2013
how can this be real? RT @sarahkliff From creators of the Brosurance ad comes this new Obamacare ad for the ladies. pic.twitter.com/8ea4I1gvWH
— Alex Burns (@aburnspolitico) November 12, 2013