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09-20-2017, 04:44 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/amelia-hamilton/2017/09/19/mindy-project-right-obamacare-wrong-melania
By Amelia Hamilton | September 19, 2017 10:36 PM EDT
As The Mindy Project moves into its final season on Hulu, it's still delivering the irreverent humor that has made it last six seasons. Since the beginning, that has included jabs at both sides of the political aisle and Tuesday's episode "A Romantic Decouplement" (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/61644-s06e02-a-romantical-decouplement/?do=getLastComment) was no different. The only problem is that, while the show was right on Obamacare, it was wrong on First Lady Melania Trump.
The beginning of the episode finds Dr. Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) and her husband Ben (Bryan Greenberg) in marriage counseling. Frustrated that they've been seeing the therapist for weeks with, as Mindy put it, "No diagnosis," she says that her patients don't have to deal with such long waits. "My diagnoses take like five seconds, ok?" she brags, "Patient's in, small talk, stirrups, 'you have a UTI,' lollipop, 'no, we don't take Obamacare.' Done."
Unfortunately, too many Americans are hearing that these days, despite former President Obama's famous promise that "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." As we know, that was simply not true, regardless of the media's attempts to distract from that, and that's not counting the people who lost their coverage entirely. So, while The Mindy Project was accurate in portraying a doctor who won't accept ObamaCare, it was wrong about Melania Trump in this quick dig at the First Lady.
By Amelia Hamilton | September 19, 2017 10:36 PM EDT
As The Mindy Project moves into its final season on Hulu, it's still delivering the irreverent humor that has made it last six seasons. Since the beginning, that has included jabs at both sides of the political aisle and Tuesday's episode "A Romantic Decouplement" (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/61644-s06e02-a-romantical-decouplement/?do=getLastComment) was no different. The only problem is that, while the show was right on Obamacare, it was wrong on First Lady Melania Trump.
The beginning of the episode finds Dr. Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) and her husband Ben (Bryan Greenberg) in marriage counseling. Frustrated that they've been seeing the therapist for weeks with, as Mindy put it, "No diagnosis," she says that her patients don't have to deal with such long waits. "My diagnoses take like five seconds, ok?" she brags, "Patient's in, small talk, stirrups, 'you have a UTI,' lollipop, 'no, we don't take Obamacare.' Done."
Unfortunately, too many Americans are hearing that these days, despite former President Obama's famous promise that "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." As we know, that was simply not true, regardless of the media's attempts to distract from that, and that's not counting the people who lost their coverage entirely. So, while The Mindy Project was accurate in portraying a doctor who won't accept ObamaCare, it was wrong about Melania Trump in this quick dig at the First Lady.