Musicians Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson and Valerie June are heading to the Tremendous Bowl — in a brand new advert for the nonprofit group Energy to the Sufferers.
The performers seem in a brand new spot that raises consciousness in regards to the well being care disaster in America and pushes for officers to be extra clear about the price of well being care. Within the industrial, the singers criticize hospitals and insurance coverage firms for robbing sufferers, lots of whom have handled medical debt.
“Hospitals and insurance coverage firms throughout the US are stealing our future by looting each affected person, employee, employer and household throughout the nation,” Jelly Roll, identified for hits like “Want a Favor” and “Save Me,” mentioned in a press release.
Wilson, who gained her first Grammy final week, added: “Americans in want of care are afraid to enter a hospital.”
Energy to the Sufferers, which was based in 2021, says the purpose of the industrial “is to power hospitals and insurance coverage firms across the nation to publicize precise costs for his or her providers and procedures prematurely as a substitute of billing sufferers after the actual fact.”
Final month Jelly Roll, Fats Joe and Wyclef Jean joined Energy to the Sufferers in Washington, D.C., to boost consciousness in regards to the nationwide difficulty in entrance of roughly 500 congressional leaders and authorities officers. The nonprofit partnered with hip-hop heavyweights like Fats Joe, Rick Ross, Busta Rhymes, Technique Man, French Montana and Chuck D final yr to unveil a spot that got here because the Home of Representatives voted on a historic well being care worth transparency invoice.
