Fat Joe’s new PSA demands for elected officials to stop price gouging when it comes to healthcare.
The 54-year-old teamed up with the nonprofit organization “Power to the Patients” to push politicians to prioritize healthcare price transparency in the upcoming election that’s just over 30 days away.
In the video, Fat Joe delivers an important message about “robbing all of us” when it comes to healthcare.
“To every elected official and politician in America… the people stand united, desperate for you to listen,” says Fat Joe. “If you’re not advocating for prices and transparency in healthcare… you are compromising every single American across this country. Because when we can’t see prices, hospitals, insurers, and their middlemen charge us whatever they want.”
“That’s how our economy works!” he continues. “If you wanna do right by workers, employers, and unions… then you’ve got to do right by the people they represent and the families who depend upon them. And we gotta hear it. Prices now!”
Fat Joe’s fight is a noble one. More than 100 million Americans have medical debt. More than 90 percent of Americans support transparency when it comes to healthcare prices too — but only 34.5 percent of hospitals actually comply with price-disclosing rules. It's a complex, widespread problem that will hopefully be addressed very soon, thanks to the rapper's new video.
Last month, Fat Joe joined forces with Anitta and DJ Khaled to release the song “Paradise.” The nostalgic party anthem samples Stevie B’s 1988 single, “Spring Love (Come Back to Me).”
In August, the rapper received a Key to the City from New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams.
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