The Media: Beware of What You See and Hear
We need to fully appreciate the power of those seemingly “informative” ads and discussions and articles in the media.
Millions of dollars can use a combination of psychologists and marketing experts and skillful camera crews and radio announcers to control opinions. That’s what happened in Oregon in Nov. 2002 (Measure 23), in California in Oct. 2004 (Proposition 72). The stunning defeats of those two state health care ballot proposals were roughly 80% in opposition against the people’s own best interests!
Those media ads and discussions in the media against single-payer sound extremely convincing. Unfortunately, those media forces have controlled our opinions for decades. It’s time for the power of the people to be greater than the power of those who would deny us what all other free-market high-income countries have. People in the other countries will complain, and they will be happily tell you that they do complain as much as anyone else. But they like their healthier, longer lives with never experiencing any major medical bills. We need to get that too with single-payer!
No matter what you see or hear, know this: no matter how convincing it looks and sounds … remember that the average person in other free-market countries:
- lives longer
- has no worries about ever receiving a major medical bill
- will not go bankrupt or lose their home, and does not suffer any of the long list of real story hardships that millions of Americans have suffered and are suffering that are directly caused by major medical bills.
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