--- description: It's all to get people insured title: Watch Obama Use a Selfie Stick to Sell Obamacare image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Obama Use a Selfie Stick to Sell Obamacare by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 12, 2015 6:53 PM CUT by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 12, 2015 6:53 PM CUT President Obama is using your dad’s favorite [invention](http://time.com/3594971/the-25-best-inventions-of-2014/ "undefined") of 2014: The selfie stick. But the President wasn’t mugging for vanity’s sake. Rather, Obama created a millennial-friendly video with [_Buzzfeed_](http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewgauthier/the-president-uses-a-selfie-stick#.xfJ9e0bp8W "undefined") as a way to get young Americans to sign up for health insurance ahead of the latest Obamacare enrollment deadline. This isn’t the first time the President has used humor to advertise the Affordable Care Act. Last year, Obama worked with Funny or Die on the hilarious and very viral video [_Between Two Ferns._](http://time.com/19954/president-obama-on-between-two-ferns-how-funny-or-die-made-it-happen/ "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3707652/obama-selfie-stick-obamacare/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3707652/obama-selfie-stick-obamacare/"},"headline":"Watch Obama Use a Selfie Stick to Sell Obamacare","datePublished":"2015-02-12T18:53:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:50.490Z","description":"It's all to get people insured","url":"https://time.com/3707652/obama-selfie-stick-obamacare/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","Technology","viral","Obama","President Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3707652/obama-selfie-stick-obamacare/","name":"Watch Obama Use a Selfie Stick to Sell Obamacare"}}]}] ```