{"id":14199,"date":"2022-12-06T04:53:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T04:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/m2comms.com\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2024-03-15T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:34:31","slug":"how-democrats-and-republicans-are-shaping-the-narrative-on-us-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m2comms.com\/2022\/12\/06\/how-democrats-and-republicans-are-shaping-the-narrative-on-us-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Healthcare Narrative: Democrats vs Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14199\" class=\"elementor elementor-14199\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-051aa9d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"051aa9d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6199531 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6199531\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 13-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">By: M2 Communications<\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aa3c2c0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"aa3c2c0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b6a41d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7b6a41d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.20.0 - 13-03-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">A\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2020\/08\/13\/important-issues-in-the-2020-election\/\">survey<\/a> conducted by Pew Research Center in July-August 2020 showed that 68 percent of registered voters in the US considered healthcare to be &#8220;very important&#8221; for their vote, second only to the national economy (79 percent). Meanwhile, the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic came in fourth, with 62 percent of respondents saying that this would be very important when making their voting decision.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b0db2f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b0db2f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"75v3m\" data-offset-key=\"el9gg-0-0\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"75v3m\" data-offset-key=\"el9gg-0-0\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" data-offset-key=\"el9gg-0-0\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6j1en\" data-offset-key=\"eavfq-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"eavfq-0-0\">\n<div data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6j1en\" data-offset-key=\"eavfq-0-0\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/_UtXvLPokS7P_nJqySsxt5V8cRUpKLhC9gK_IBkBj2K8lhZqWpD0kujPuvRJip1YVX7Z39uIZkILp5eKGa4FNDGYGwEaomE0LDxPIf5KfeduIv9THIEUD3AGvQ31DB29O_UdEsg2QolrLPVzI_1mzIW0G-M_dwQqErWbrLu1odt6WDMlcQGFgBSCUnwy\" alt=\"Economy is top issue for voters in the 2020 election | Infographic\" width=\"624\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: start;\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"7j8l1\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\">\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">With the November 2020 US presidential elections just around the corner, it will be important to understand whether these sentiments are shared in the public communications of the two candidates: Donald Trump of the Republican party and Joe Biden of the Democratic party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">For this analysis, we created a corpora of the speeches from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and the Republican National Convention (RNC). Datasets have been downloaded from Kaggle. We also used NodeXL Pro to gather the most recent 25,758 tweets that mentioned either Joe Biden or Donald Trump alongside \u201chealth care\u201d. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">These corpora were compiled and processed using Sketch Engine for <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">keywords<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">concordance<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">, and parts of speech analysis. Then, they were individually run through Cowo to identify conceptual associations at the sentence level, i.e. pairs of concepts that most frequently appeared in the same sentence were identified and mapped out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">We utilized Gephi to calculate <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><i>network centralities<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> to help determine the most important concepts in the network, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><i>modularity class<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> to cluster the concepts with the strongest associations with one another, with each cluster representing a sub-theme of the overall narrative network, and to visualize the networks using the Circle Pack algorithm. We used a similar approach in our <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m2comms.com\/2022\/12\/06\/what-twitter-users-are-saying-about-racial-injustice-how-it-shapes-todays-dominant-narratives\/\">previous article<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> about the discussion on race among Twitter users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"font-size: 13pt; color: #000000; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/sxfVUqLlJ_hhU_Y46-1QKH21TkJtFgPy7HGYL6h7ZhurXuu_-onvtK5kJsrOm3atjWYLdWpzkDQma6fjfLscvCZgqWmaF_5kljFUuhD0sUoDFKlcl5SF7OEPR4aOpcxPKFcv_TSiJ92Aw0qZsb0jQAfMeactl7iYs3S7JNioDZJVUQG5516kj60HV37W\" alt=\"Narrative congruence score formula | Infographic\" width=\"624\" height=\"76\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Healthcare Received Minimal Attention in the Republican National Convention Speeches<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cHealth care\u201d as a concept was not a top keyword in the RNC speeches. \u201cBig pharma\u201d has been the only health-related concept in the top 50 terms, according to typicality score (85.45, 10 mentions). \u201cFrontline health care\u201d ranked only 557th in typicality score (20.08, two mentions), and \u201cfederal health care\u201d ranked 931st (17.62, two mentions).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cHealth care\u201d also only appeared six times in the speeches (with four of those instances being in Trump\u2019s speeches), and the word \u201chealth\u201d only appeared 22 times out of a <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: none; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">corpus<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> of 89,246 words (0.02%).<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/K-kItHb7QtnCRwcpFGXi5p_0YxiJ6TrPMFFt2RcVG-2YTQX0yB1HFqIkFQIYj2N3CG5AReaF3KXYlYhHnAyYJVp2lympBpi3_V8JSxcIIIf9fkDs-AYd3xtMEIC0XKR3fcrGgAwiIZoaIf1FCqLG2AakoPPDc_A0v0N97FJohqeYsJpoAdGNK-S-ecxV\" alt=\"Keyword score for Big Pharma | Infographic\" width=\"624\" height=\"631\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">These are illustrative examples of how \u201chealth care\u201d was used in the speeches:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cJoe Biden recently raised his hand on the debate stage, and promised he was going to give it away your health care dollars to illegal immigrants, which is going to bring a massive number of immigrants into our country.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cMassive numbers will pour into our country to get all the goodies that they want to give. Education, health care, everything. also supports deadly sanctuary cities that protect criminal aliens.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe will ban deadly sanctuary cities, and ensure federal health care is protected for American citizens, not for illegal aliens. We will have strong borders.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Thus, we can see that health care was not given substantial play in the RNC. At all times, it was placed within the context of immigration and crime (including a \u201cdrug crisis\u201d, which had a typicality score of 77.06 (eight mentions)).<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 18px;\">Big Pharma was used as an example of Trump\u2019s positioning of taking on monopolies and entrenched bureaucracy<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cBig pharma\u201d was mentioned ten times in the RNC speeches and was used to position Trump as an anti-establishment leader willing to take on entrenched moneyed interests. We can see this in both Trump\u2019s speeches and the speech of his son.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cBig pharma, they call it for a reason. There\u2019s nobody that gives the politicians more money than big pharma. Nobody. Not even close. So I said, \u201cWell look, if you\u2019re not going to negotiate a fair deal, we\u2019re going to do a favored\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cLast month, I took on big pharma. Do you think that\u2019s easy? It\u2019s not. And signed orders that would massively lower the cost of your prescription drugs, and\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cMy father is the only person to challenge the establishment, the entrenched bureaucracy, big pharma, and media monopolies, to ensure that Americans\u2019 constitutional freedoms are upheld and that justice and truth\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The COVID-19 pandemic was described in the RNC as a means for the Democrats to defraud Americans by giving millionaires tax breaks through the COVID relief bill, and to steal the elections<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cCOVID-19\u201d was mentioned 16 times in the speeches and \u201cpandemic\u201d was mentioned 48 times. These however were typically not used within the context of public health, but tax legislation, election reform, and the American war on drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201c\u2026but they\u2019ve spent the entire pandemic trying to sneak a tax break for millionaires and Democrat states into the COVID relief bill. Then they attacked my father for suspending the payroll tax for middle-class workers.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201c\u2026What they\u2019re doing is using COVID to steal an election. They\u2019re using COVID to defraud the American people, all of our people, of a fair and free election. And we can\u2019t do that. And don\u2019t let them.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The pandemic was also used within the context of what was characterized as a drug crisis in America, again tying health issues to crime and law and order.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">The pandemic was also used as a vehicle for the RNC\u2019s emphasis on the idea of a great American nation and American exceptionalism, standing apart from geo-political rival China:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cIn recent months, our nation and the world have been hit by the once-in-a-century pandemic that China allowed to spread around the globe. They could have stopped it, but they allowed it to come out.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Alternative COVID-19 treatments being developed in America were mentioned in Trump\u2019s speeches<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Convalescent plasma \u2013 which has not yet been cleared by the US FDA \u2013 was described as a \u201cpowerful therapeutic for COVID-19\u201d, and was used to differentiate Trump from Biden\u2019s position that \u201cno miracle treatment was coming.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cWe developed a wide array of effective treatments, including a powerful antibody treatment known as convalescent plasma . You saw that? On Sunday night when we announced it. That will save thousands and thousands of lives.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cAs we speak, we\u2019re developing a growing number of treatments, known as therapeutics, including convalescent plasma that are saving lives all across America. Now, last week, Joe Biden said that no miracle is coming. But what Joe doesn\u2019t\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.38; background-color: #ffffff; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Healthcare was also not a major topic in the DNC speeches<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">While the DNC speeches were much more compact than the RNC speeches, with a corpus of only 19,964 words, the same NLP techniques can nevertheless be used to surface the major themes in this collection of speeches. Interestingly, and in a similar fashion to the RNC speeches, the DNC did not give much attention to health care relative to other issues such as systemic racism (highest typicality score of 158.71) and the economy (104.11), with \u201cmaternal health care\u201d (41.45), \u201cpublic health crisis\u201d (39.32), \u201chome health care\u201d (39.08), \u201chealth care system\u201d (15.95), \u201chealth insurance\u201d (8.28), \u201cpublic health\u201d (1.94), and \u201chealth care\u201d (0.9) only being mentioned once in the set of speeches, for a total of only seven instances of the word \u201chealth\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-align: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/hPjwDGE_v5AUkWBvNGFUCy_yrhGrkpjYyEY637NHInkGUWTwSAUt836yU5IqxpLVaOc2HeHt7t1v7rwGFhU9sWYlnHAX2Wu6IHG5zS8J58lcA00oQdrik4gR4a6shMEvpqUjiOK2dp8D5PgRZ3GduWmV3zL_9Y1pfhTrtmnide_p0AOVE5jAPpDNAKD_\" alt=\"Keyword score DNC | Infographic\" width=\"624\" height=\"631\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">But even if mentions of health care were few and short, direct references to health systems and health insurance were made, and health care was placed within the context of a public health plan rather than to other issues like immigration or crime:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cThat\u2019s how the economy will keep getting skewed to the wealthy and well-connected. How our health systems will let more people fall through the cracks. That\u2019s how a democracy withers until it\u2019s no democracy at all and\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cgreat nation is now living in an unprecedented moment. We\u2019re facing the worst public health crisis in 100 years and the worst economic collapse since the great depression. We are confronting systemic racism and\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cThis president is not just a threat to our democracy, but by rejecting science, he has put our lives and health in jeopardy. Trump has attacked doctors and scientists trying to protect us from the pandemic while refusing to take\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cSince this pandemic began, over 30 million people have lost their jobs and many have lost their health insurance. Millions of working families are wondering how they will feed their kids and they\u2019re worried that they will\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\" style=\"list-style-type: disc; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 23pt;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u201cWho was standing in the way? Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. Our nation faces the worst health and economic catastrophe in our history. More than five million Americans are infected by the coronavirus.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Here, we can see that while the DNC was not used as a platform to discuss details of Biden\u2019s health plan, health care was at least directly addressed as an issue affecting the November 2020 elections instead of a mere launchpad for other priority areas (in Trump\u2019s case, immigration and American exceptionalism).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\"><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">On social media, recent pro-Trump tweets talked about the \u201cDemocrats\u2019 socialist takeover of health care\u201d while pro-Biden tweets emphasized Trump\u2019s lack of a healthcare plan<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr; text-align: inherit;\" data-offset-key=\"bfg7d-0-0\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Of the 25,758 most recent tweets mentioning Joe Biden or Donald Trump within the context of health care, 11,976 (46 percent) were retweets of the following message by the @JoeBiden account:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Meanwhile, there were 151 retweets (0.5 percent) of a tweet by the official @GOP account characterizing Joe Biden\u2019s program as a \u201csocialist takeover\u201d of healthcare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">These observations are consistent with our analysis of the RNC and DNC speeches, where the former gave minimal attention to health care and consistently placed it within the context of non-public health agendas such as law and order, immigration, and election reform.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: Montserrat,sans-serif; color: #0f0f0f; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">We also gathered the 24,067 most recent tweets mentioning only Biden and observed some frustration over health care even among would-be Biden supporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 18px;\"><i>About M2<\/i><\/span><\/h3>\n<div style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Inter, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Fira Sans', 'Droid Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap; margin: 1em 0px; position: relative; direction: ltr;\" data-offset-key=\"8v98e-0-0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-family: Poppins;\" data-offset-key=\"8v98e-0-0\"><em>M2.0 Communications offers media analytics services including <a href=\"https:\/\/m2comms.com\/data-and-analytics\/brand-performance-analysis\/\">brand performance analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/m2comms.com\/data-and-analytics\/media-monitoring\/\">media monitoring<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/m2comms.com\/data-and-analytics\/social-listening\/\">social listening<\/a>. 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