Comments on: Harry And Louise Are Back http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/harry-and-louise-are-back/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harry-and-louise-are-back The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere Thu, 24 May 2012 07:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: AHart http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/harry-and-louise-are-back/comment-page-1/#comment-23245 AHart Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:54:36 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/harry-and-louise-are-back/#comment-23245 Wouldn't it be nice if politics (like policy) were an exercise in thought and not emotion? Wouldn’t it be nice if politics (like policy) were an exercise in thought and not emotion?

]]> By: Jane Hiebert-White http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/harry-and-louise-are-back/comment-page-1/#comment-23206 Jane Hiebert-White Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:50:14 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/harry-and-louise-are-back/#comment-23206 Love it or hate it, the power of the "Harry and Louise" ad is very interesting from a public policy viewpoint. Indeed, one of Obama's health advisers, Gregg Bloche, who is a professor of law at Georgetown, <a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/26/6/1534" rel="nofollow">wrote last fall</a>: "The "Harry and Louise" ads that doomed the Clinton plan worked by making a connection with the average person’s worries about losing out in the health reform reshuffle." And nearly a decade ago, Fitzhugh Mullan, a pediatrician and creator of Health Affairs' Narrative Matters section pointed to the advertising couple in his introductory <a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/18/4/118" rel="nofollow">essay</a>: "The Harry and Louise anti-Health Security Act television ads of 1994 are potent examples of the use of anecdote (out of context, synthetic, and dramatized, to be sure) to sway public opinion about health policy." Love it or hate it, the power of the “Harry and Louise” ad is very interesting from a public policy viewpoint. Indeed, one of Obama’s health advisers, Gregg Bloche, who is a professor of law at Georgetown, wrote last fall: “The “Harry and Louise” ads that doomed the Clinton plan worked by making a connection with the average person’s worries about losing out in the health reform reshuffle.”

And nearly a decade ago, Fitzhugh Mullan, a pediatrician and creator of Health Affairs’ Narrative Matters section pointed to the advertising couple in his introductory essay: “The Harry and Louise anti-Health Security Act television ads of 1994 are potent examples of the use of anecdote (out of context, synthetic, and dramatized, to be sure) to sway public opinion about health policy.”

]]> By: Neil Gardner http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/harry-and-louise-are-back/comment-page-1/#comment-23196 Neil Gardner Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:24:47 +0000 http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2008/08/21/harry-and-louise-are-back/#comment-23196 What a God awful way to make important public policy! If anything, Harry and Louise should be blamed for the mess we are in because of the scare tactics they represented and used to prevent badly needed reforms back in the early 90s. Talk about being discredited! What a God awful way to make important public policy! If anything, Harry and Louise should be blamed for the mess we are in because of the scare tactics they represented and used to prevent badly needed reforms back in the early 90s. Talk about being discredited!

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