Top-post countdown No. 2: Health care reform explained on back of a napkin
April 29, 2010Jon Brooks Comments Off2. Health care reform explained on the back of a napkin – Simple graphics illustrate a topic that baffled most Americans for an entire year. (Oct 14, 2009)
Original post:
After reading countless articles and opinion pieces on the health care debate, and watching dozens of talking heads slug it out over individual mandates, insurance co-ops, and the public option, we remained thoroughly confused. So we decided the only thing left to do was to turn to the explanatory device of the napkin. This was worked up by leading visual thinker Dan Roam and Dr. C. Anthony Jones.
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