Ellen DeGeneres did most of the work in promoting Obamacare for the president when he appeared on her show in an interview that will air Thursday. While President Obama made some of his usual pitches — parents get your kids to sign up, it’s cheaper than your cell-phone bill, etc. — the talk-show host stepped in to try to help him sell the controversial health-care law.
“It’s doing very, very well,” DeGeneres said “It had a rough start, but you’ve got 5 million people that have signed up so — an enormous number of people have signed up, so it’s successful.”
Later, though the studio audience was nearly silent, she claimed that “people are starting to applaud here” when she spoke about the importance of enrolling before the March 31 deadline.
“I think everyone’s very grateful that you did this, and I think it is important for people to sign up,” DeGeneres peddled. “It’s just better to be covered — you just never know.”
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