The Perfect Gift for the Health Care Buff in Your Family

Searching for the perfect gift for the health care reform junkie in your family? A new graphic novel by Jonathan Gruber (out on Dec. 20) may be just what you’ve been looking for. The book, Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works, has been gestating for awhile, and aims to explain the complicated legislation. Here’s an excerpt from the Amazon book description:

 And we will do all this while reducing the federal deficit.


(HT: Marginal Revolution)

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  1. Chad says:

    I guess, “Obamacare: Spending trillions, calling it ‘saving’, and bypassing representational democracy” was already taken.

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      • James says:

        “We already spend trillions Obamacare essentially proposes to do so in a different way.”

        But that still leaves us with the fundamental problem: spending trillions. Suppose that we stopped arguing about who’s going to pay those trillions, and spent a little time working on ways to reduce the actual cost? Including (a good subject for a few Freakonomics posts) the perverse incentives that induce almost everyone involved, from patients on up, to opt for the most expensive of a range of equally-effective treatments.

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  2. Joe J says:

    Ah found in the humor section.

  3. Delwin says:

    This is way too much like Communist agitprop.

    “And Comrade Stalin, leader of the vanguard proletariat, will ensure all said controls with iron fist. Join him and there will be no more pain, our expenses will be free, and unicorns will lick away your tears and piss money.”

    Tiny pamphlet footnote:
    “Oh, by the way, little thing but I should mention, (it’s kind of funny actually), the government now has the power to punish you for not buying products it has approved. That’s it, return to the list of magical features of the health-care bill.”

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  4. jimmy says:

    When should one worry about going broke if not when getting sick?
    Should one worry about going broke after purchasing an expensive home?
    Should one worry about going broke after a divorce?
    Should one worry about going broke after losing a job?
    Buying a sportscar? Motorhome? Paying the Vet for treating a dog with cancer?
    If we shouldn’t (shan’t) worry about going broke after getting sick, When the hell should we (or anyone) worry about going broke? Surely there is a situation when one should worry about going broke….. Isn’t there?

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  5. EP says:

    Why are you advertising for this?

  6. twobeef says:

    The conservative version will be a coloring book.

    “Welfare Susie spent too much taxpayer money on smart doctors! Color in the letter she gets from the insurance company telling her that she has to quit being lazy and get a job!”

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  7. DaveyNC says:

    High-deductible insurance policies with HSAs for all. Disentangle it from being employer-provided, make the health insurance companies sell health insurance the same way the car insurance companies do. Get the government subsidies out of it. Make the consumer, and his/her doctor, pay attention to cost and make decisions as to what is and is not viable.

    And, if the Dems just have to give money away, go ahead and fund the HSA’s up to $2000 to get things started.

  8. Terry says:

    we are so healthcare dumb that we need cartoons to help us. :) I like it….

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