Are you a mother in Rhode
Island and want your grown children to get health insurance?
Luckily for you, the Rhode Island state government launched a
Facebook ad campaign today warning 23-33 year-olds that if they
don’t get health coverage through the Rhode Island exchange
(HealthSourceRI) their moms could find them on OkCupid,
Tinder, or Snapchat and urge them to get covered.
Really.
According to
BuzzFeed the Rhode Island state government recently soft
launched Nag Toolkit, a
site that teaches mothers how to track down and stalk their kids on
dating and hookup apps as well as social media apps to remind them
to get health insurance.
From
BuzzFeed:
In a new campaign set to officially launch Tuesday, the Rhode
Island state government is taking the longstanding national effort
to use the opinion of mothers as the pathway to youth insurance
enrollment to new levels. In Facebook ads aimed at state residents
aged 23–33, the state will warn people that if they don’t sign up
for health care through the Rhode Island exchange — known as
HealthSourceRI — then Rhode Island will help their moms find them
on Snapchat, Vine, Tinder, Twitter, and OkCupid.It’s not an idle threat. Last week, the state soft-launched the
Nag Toolkit, a website for moms containing simple instructions for
how to join, entice, and stalk their children on dating websites
with reminders to buy health coverage before the enrollment
deadline passes at the end of March. A separate campaign aimed at
moms will drive them to the Toolkit site, which also collects email
addresses of young people submitted by their moms. The ads for moms
are aimed at women in Rhode Island aged 45 and up.
Nag Toolkit urges mothers who want to find their children on
OkCupid to come up with a “provocative username.”
I have it on good authority from a Reason colleague
that on Tinder both parties have to consent to communicating before
*ahem* contact can begin, which may result in some interesting
interactions.
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