Media Impact or Our Impact
The negative impact of fear and/or doubt
via the opposition's media campaigns
compared to
the positive impact of common sense
via our own efforts to inform each other
Americans' opinions based on
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Americans' opinions based on
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| Actions of Corporations’ Money … controlling opinions by people being impacted by their emotional reactions to propaganda |
Actions of People’s Time and Effort … supporting and reinforcing common sense opinions ... by people becoming informed by learning the facts, getting their individual questions and concerns answered, and learning of the testimonials of Americans who live and work in other free-market countries |
| Campaigns in opposition, presenting a negative view. Result: Americans fearing single-payer health care See Influence of Corporations, below. |
Single-payer movement educational efforts, such as the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign, presenting a positive view of Improved Medicare for All Result: Americans embracing single-payer health care. ... and becoming involved in communicating to the U.S. Congress See Influence of individual Americans, below |
Influence of Corporations
Direct Influence on Ballot Proposals: examples of the demonstrated direct influence on the collective opinion of Americans, where the spending of money to influence public opinion was directly targeted to each state:
20% Support. The stunning defeats of the following two state health care ballot proposals were roughly 80% in opposition against the people’s own best interests!
Oregon experience in November 2002 (Measure 23)
California experience in October 2004 (Proposition 72).Indirect Influence on Polls and Events: examples of the results of strong corporate media campaigns throughout the year 2009. This was an indirect influence, because the following two activities were not directly targeted.
Facebook poll in 2009. over 150,000 votes (69%) against universal health care.
Mad As Hell Doctors’ Activity: a private investment of much time, money and effort. This tour across the United States in the fall of 2009 resulted in a “modest rally” in Washington, D.C., according to the news reporting by those reporters who were monitoring the activity the closest.
Influence of Individual Americans Informing Other Americans
We Americans need to inform each other and invite each other to sign up.
See an example of where Americans are clearly informing each other: Massachusetts.
The average person in other free-market countries:
- lives longer
- has less pain and suffering due to preventable causes
- 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 hardships that millions of Americans have suffered and are suffering that are directly caused by major medical bills.
Millions of Informed Citizens Communicating:
More Power Than the Opposition's Lobbyists and the Media
Additional Information
Oregon experience: the influence of corporate media campaigns on Americans’ opinions
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