Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • The President: Are you getting this?

  • Come on, we've got to film this.

  • Iman Crosson: It was just, it was a mind-blowing moment.

  • I've been doing it for so many years, to be in his office,

  • doing an impression of him, for him.

  • Now, look, I'm happy to be here in the Oval Office.

  • I either -- get to work, or you can.

  • You can take a lunch break, and I can take an hour and fill in

  • for you.

  • I'm just happy to be here, and happy to shake your hand.

  • The President: You're going to have to get

  • some gray hair, though.

  • Iman Crosson: Yeah.

  • The President: I used to look like you.

  • Hannah Hart: Today was incredible.

  • The President took time to come and meet with myself and some

  • other digital influencers I suppose,

  • and really kind of find out our opinions on health care,

  • other issues that are important to us,

  • and how we reach out to our communities.

  • The President: For the next five weeks,

  • get as many people to sign up as possible.

  • So we've got a short-term agenda.

  • And anything you guys can do, any suggestions you have,

  • just let us know.

  • Tyler Oakley: I was thinking, even while I was talking with

  • the President, I'm like oh my gosh, my friend and I,

  • we've talked about how he doesn't have insurance.

  • And like, this is the easiest solution ever.

  • All you have to do is go online and do it.

  • Hannah Hart: As a YouTuber, I'm basically self-employed,

  • meaning that I'm a small business owner and my small

  • business is entertainment.

  • So, because of that, I don't have insurance

  • coming from anywhere.

  • I'm 27, I don't qualify to be on my parent's insurance.

  • So I went to healthcare.gov, which redirected me to Covered

  • California, and then I chose the plan that fit best for me.

  • Iman Crosson: By myself, up until now,

  • I had never had health insurance.

  • And I've been in situations where I dislocated my shoulder

  • twice, and ER visits, and hospital visits,

  • all on my own dime.

  • Dimes that I didn't actually have.

  • So, you know, when you're not covered and something happens,

  • you can actually place yourself in a position to be

  • in a lot of debt.

  • Hannah Hart: At the end of the enrollment process,

  • it says like tweet to tell a friend.

  • And I thought about all the friends that I have who don't

  • have insurance.

  • So, I tweeted, hey, I got covered at Covered California.

  • And then Covered California contacted me,

  • and I ended up hosting a live stream for them at the YouTube

  • space, which was awesome because it kind of gave me a chance

  • to reach out through YouTube to my community.

  • I want them all to have health insurance.

  • I like them very much.

  • I'd like them to live long, happy, healthy lives.

  • Iman Crosson: I just wanted to get involved and have people

  • begin to talk about the Affordable Care Act,

  • and what it is, and how do you sign up.

  • And so the easiest thing way to do that was to do a parody song

  • saying, sign up like it's hot, because once you go to the

  • website, you can read for yourself and you can ask

  • questions or you can read the FAQ and understand exactly

  • what's going on.

  • So, that's why I made that video.

  • Tyler Oakley: My audience is a really young audience,

  • which is really cool, because I think me talking about the

  • things that are important to me, like health care,

  • gets them into the mindset of, okay,

  • well this isn't something that adults have to worry about.

  • It's something that affects everybody.

  • Iman Crosson: With the upcoming deadline of March 31 approaching

  • quickly, I think young people, as much as we're integrated into

  • social media, we can use those tools to get that word out.

  • The President: So, it's a complicated time for us

  • to get information out.

  • And this group really can help to advise us in terms of how

  • do we reach people.

  • Iman Crosson: And I think it's important to spread the word

  • because we're in a position to have something for us,

  • in terms of health care that we've never had before,

  • this country's never had before.

  • And you don't want to get past that March 31st deadline and

  • have to wait until it reopens again because you never know

  • what can happen in that window.

  • So, spread the word.

  • Just get covered, prepare for it, ahead of time.

The President: Are you getting this?

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it