GRIFFITH PITCHING U.S. HEALTH CARE LAW
Veteran American actor ANDY GRIFFITH has returned to the small screen - h e’s pitching U.S. president BARACK OBAMA’s health care law to seniors in a new TV advert.
The former The Andy Griffith Show star appears in the new ad, insisting "good things are coming" for Medicare recipients, a social insurance pro gramme administered by the American government to provide health insuranc e coverage for people over 65.
Griffith, 84, touts free preventive check-ups and lower-cost prescripti ons for Medicare recipients as just some of the benefits of Obama’s healt h care overhaul, which seeks to expand coverage for the uninsured.
The promo is part of a Medicare campaign to educate senior citizens abo ut the new benefits which will be made available next year (11). (JMA/WNW
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