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A century’s worth of partisan bickering over healthcare told through cartoons (video)

October 23, 2012 4:49 pm by | 0 Comments

The University of Rochester, a private university, is out with a new book about … what else but healthcare reform.

But the twist is that the book tells the history of 100 years of partisan debate over the issue using political cartoons. “The Quest for Health Care Reform: A Satirical History” uses more than 200 cartoons to narrate the story from Theodore Roosevelt’s support “for protection from the ‘hazards of sickness’” in 1912 to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act in 2012.

Here is the video that the university created:

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Arundhati Parmar

By Arundhati Parmar

Arundhati Parmar is the Medical Devices Reporter at MedCity News. She has covered medical technology since 2008 and specialized in business journalism since 2001. Parmar has three degrees from three continents - a Bachelor of Arts in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; a Masters in English Literature from the University of Sydney, Australia and a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern University in Chicago. She has sworn never to enter a classroom again.
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