There was a post last year about celebrities shilling for these preventative, privatized MRIs, and Mindy Kaling has joined the club. She posted her promo to her stories today. It's really gross to me that this is all sold as "proactive healthcare" especially when so many people can't even afford to get an MRI, let alone celebrities getting them for free. I can't say that I'm surprised that Mindy would do this, but I do find it gross.
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Meanwhile how many people are uninsured in the U.S.?
Kick rocks Mindy
Holy shit.
Boo! She has really sold out, huh?
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I don’t get why it’s legal to allow celebs to promote pharma and “health” crap. I see commercial after commercial of celebrities promoting drugs. It’s insane. I mean I do get why. It’s just so gross that it’s never enough money. Who cares who you exploit along the way I guess.
I did not see her villain rewrite coming but Jesus talk about tone deaf
Fucking sure are you going to pay for everyone mindy. Fucking hell I hate the rich
Sometimes the wrong people become famous.
While people die because they cant afford healthcare… the rich hate us and some haven’t realised
Literally anything for money. These people have no integrity. No soul.
Ah yes, incidental findings and huge cost/anxiety. With millions uninsured.
how much money is enough for these people. i understand more money = more expensive lifestyle but come on.
Proactive healthcare? IN THIS ECONOMY?! With these shitty healthcare system?
Ffs I wish these celebrities would disappear
I have never understood the popularity of Mindy Kaling. I feel like culturally, we’re always on the cusp of cancelling her and I really hope we clear that threshold at some point.
She also shills skin bleach.
Ah something most people will never be able to afford. But make sure you practice preventative healthcare!
Tone deaf af. The idea of preventative healthcare is fantastic; meanwhile, 27 million Americans don’t have health insurance, as of 2026. For many, reactive healthcare is the only option, and some will even go without treatment when they desperately need it because they can’t afford it.
that’s cool, Mindy. I can’t afford health insurance 🥲 I love living in the US.
These are such a bad idea
Whatta sellout
Eat the rich.
She is basically Kelly in real life…
So tone deaf. I wish she was advocating for this being accessible to all people. But that would never happen because imagine the amount of diseases that would be eradicated/ suddenly become super treatable.
Gross
That’s cool. It took me 16 months to pay off an ER bill.
she sucks so much
Even those with insurance are denied MRIs — ask me about how multiple doctors refused to order me one, insisting I had a pinched nerve only to end up hospitalized and diagnosed with MS months later. I hate this shit.
I really wish we could all access preventative healthcare. Healthy food. Secure and adequate housing. Green energy. Environmental protections. A lot of these things would have a direct impact on quality and longevity of life.
I never liked her. I did not like her even before knowing that her brother faked being Black to gain admission into medical school and profited by writing a book about his experience.
https://a.co/d/09x8wITt
I also think it’s ghoulish when celebrities start promoting health services like they’re a fashion trend. I believe her mom was a physician who died fairly young of pancreatic cancer. I wonder if that affected Mindy’s desire to book this ad…
I think some celebs have done a good job promoting preventative health screenings, like Katie Couric getting a colonoscopy on tv after her husband died. But anything that goes against the standard of care is so dumb for them to promote.
i mean it’s proactive in the sense that maybe she had some super weird disease that wouldn’t show any blood markers and only come up on an mri. so basically, super unlikely and a waste of money and time for everyone who needs an actual appointment. but i guess this company does this for healthy people, so at least ideal that she’s not taking up time in the hospital.
but yeah, weird to advertise random mris to people when it absolutely would not be billed as “preventative care” on their health insurance, meaning that people would have to pay out of pocket
Meanwhile my doctor told me to get an MRI for my migraines and I’ve been putting it off because it costs $1500 with my insurance
aren’t full body scans generally acknowledged by the medical community to be a bad idea because they’re just going to find things that aren’t actually problems and end up over-treatment? even when i had breast cancer, the scan only looked at lungs, brain, thighbone (where mets would be). followup for me has been a yearly mammogram (on the breast that wasn’t removed) and a lung x-ray.
Aren’t those things basically a scam anyways
MRI without a reason can be difficult to interpret. You can find abnormal things but if the patient does not have any symptoms sometimes it causes unnecessary treatments.
They are “restricted” for a reason. Imagine undergoing surgery and after that you discover that it was completely avoidable. It is something that might happen.
Tone deafness aside, as someone who has to get MRIs yearly (and pay until my deductible is met) due to an underlying health issue, who in the heck voluntarily puts themselves into this horrible, loud, EDM panic, anxiety machine? Also, my understanding is that whole body MRIs are stupid because almost everyone will find something that turns out to be benign. Also, different parts of the body require vastly different imaging techniques, like a breast MRI is completely different in terms of how you are positioned and whether or not you use contrast versus a low back MRI, which is also completely different than even a pelvic mri. What a waste and a bunch of nonsense. Also isn’t there a shortage of the gas used to run these?
The saddest thing about this whole shit, this is not preventive healthcare at all. Otherwise we’d have this in some country with socialised healthcare. Or at the least physians would do this. But they are not. This is expensive and plays with the fear of americans, who hope to avoid medical dept. But it’s nothing but a scam and almost never catches anything. Excpetions prove the rule.