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Humana

Healthcare has enough big words.We’ll use smaller ones.

Category

Print / Brand Trust / Healthcare

Campaign platform

Healthcare has enough big words.

New portfolio concept

Real client relationship. New creative execution.

Strategic idea

Healthcare creates anxiety before care even begins, largely through language.

A health brand can demonstrate humanity simply by making things understandable — and by saying the question out loud first.

Creative device

Say what the customer is already thinking.

Inbox version

Subject line

Okay. What does that actually mean?

Healthcare shouldn’t need translating.

Healthcare has enough big words.

Deductible.

Coinsurance.

In-network.

Prior authorization.

Healthcare has developed an impressive number of ways to make a simple question feel complicated.

And sometimes the most useful thing anyone can say is:

Ask us.

Ask the question you think you should already understand.

Ask twice if the first answer doesn’t make sense.

Ask us to explain it without the healthcare language.

Understanding your healthcare should be part of having healthcare.

We’ll explain.

Humana

Get answers

“Ask the question you think you should already understand.”
That’s the line.

Execution 01 — print

Hero execution

You shouldn’t needa medical degreeto understandyour healthcare.

Humana.

Execution 02 — digital — out of home

Less “what does that mean?”More “okay, I get it.”

Humana.

Calm and human. Soft green, daylight rooms, unhurried faces.

Placement — city centre, night.

Creative rationale

Trust in this category is usually claimed. Here it is demonstrated by the writing itself: short words, short lines, no jargon to decode.

The restraint is the message.

“Clarity is a form of care.”

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