Fat Joe is joining the fight for healthcare price transparency.
The rapper recently released a powerful public service announcement (PSA) in collaboration with Power to the Patients. In the PSA, the rapper calls on politicians to make healthcare pricing transparency a priority on behalf of the American people.
“To every elected official and politician in America… the people stand united, desperate for you to listen,” he states in the new video. “If you’re not advocating for prices and transparency in healthcare… you are compromising every single American across this country.”
Fat Joe continued while being surrounded by American workers, employers, and union members. “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,” he warned, calling for immediate change: “Prices now!”
In 2021, an executive order was signed by former President Donald Trump, which mandated hospitals to make their prices public. President Joe Biden called on the …