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Healthcare Debate and Scare Tactics

Healthcare Debate and Scare Tactics

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Healthcare Debate and Scare Tactics

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  1. Healthcare Debate and Scare Tactics

  2. Present Healthcare Debate • Intentions of the Obama administration to reform the healthcare system (NPR, 2009) • Opponents of reforms trying to scare people by comparing the reforms with the healthcare system during the Great Depression when only the rich received medical care (NPR, 2009) • Comparing present reforms with something bad that happened in the past to scare people • Some people may get scared and oppose reforms Use of Scare Tactics

  3. Scare Tactics- A Psychological weapon Scare Tactics is a psychological weapon that has been used by people since ages

  4. Psychological Basis • Fear is the most common human emotion • Human brain tends to remember things and incidents that caused fear in the past (Goleman, 1996) • In future if a person comes across a similar appearing thing or incident, this stimulus causes the person to get scared (Goleman, 1996)

  5. A Peron Once Comes Across a Poisonous Snake The person gets scared The brain of that person notes down that snake causes fear

  6. The Same Person in Future Comes Across a Rope Lying in the Dark His brain associates that rope with the snake he saw in the past The response- The person gets scared though the rope is not the snake Use of this psychological phenomena in social and political life is called SCARE TACTICS

  7. Scare Tactics Commands a High Success Rate Once people get scared, they rarely care to analyze their fear by cross checking an verifying facts and information

  8. Antidote Against Scare Tactics Providing the people with the right information and facts to allow them to crosscheck their fear

  9. References Goleman, Daniel (1996). Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books. NPR (2009, August 28), In Health Care Debate, Fear Trumps Logic, Retrieved May 24, 2011, from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112315433 Heathcare and medicine https://studentshare.net/21-health-sciences-and-medicine/

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