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

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 […]

By Arundhati Parmar on October 23, 2012 4:49 pm

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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