As a result, dozens of counties throughout the country have been left with only one or no insurance choice on their exchange. Source: Anatomy of a suddenly sick Obamacare insurer – CBS News Actual number at the time of that article was 1,332 counties with 1 or less ACA insurers in 2018, or more than 2 orders of magnitude different than what CBS has reported. For 2018, about 55% of counties had 1 insurer and 75% had 1 or 2…
Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda: Oregon Health Authority Lynne Saxton has resigned in the wake of news of her involvement in a plan to plant negative and misleading news about a local nonprofit health provider to influence lawmakers. Source: Pamplin Media Group – Oregon Health Authority Director Lynne Saxton resigns in the wake of planted news coverage OHA has a long track record of incompetence and poor management and leadership and public relations staff that tell lies.
“Facebook and Google get their revenue from advertising, the effectiveness of which depends on gaining and maintaining consumer attention.” Source: My Google and Facebook investments made a fortune, but now they’re a menace The very essence of Google and Facebook, at their core, is to operate as the world’s most sophisticated propagandists. Their business model is based on advertising, which is literally propaganda messaging intended to encourage you to adopt someone’s agenda, specifically, to buy something (products and services) or…
Oregon’s Oregon Health Authority put together a taxpayer funded “communications plan” (a.ka. propaganda program) to publicly demean and malign a non-profit health care provider because the OHA did not want the state legislature to pass laws supported by the non-profit health care provider. OHA was responsible for Oregon’s failed Cover Oregon, a health exchange that never enrolled anyone before being shut down after wasting nearly 1/2 billion taxpayer dollars and disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens. OHA…
Which ones are the most widely shared on social media? (Story doesn’t answer that question) Something you can do for fun – visit any of these organizations’ Facebook pages and FB will tell you which of your friends “like” that page. Kinda scary to see which friends like pages that are among the least trusted sources of news. Source: These are the most — and the least — trusted news sources in the U.S. – MarketWatch The survey was conducted…