Health care reform, in simple termsBy Tim Redmond
My old friend Dan Roam, a former Guardian associate art director and the author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas With Pictures, has taken on health-care reform.
He's done it the Dan Roam way -- by outlining the issue and the various problems and proposals with colored markers on napkins. It's a fun and useful demonstration -- although he doesn't explain why a single-payer option would make so much more sense than everything else that's on the table.
Remarkably enough, Fox News has given him a platform to explain his ideas -- and on the air, he makes a very good point. This isn't about health-care reform; it's about insurance reform. And maybe if Obama had started off saying that the issue was insurance companies instead of letting the right wing drag doctors and death panels into this, we'd all be a lot better off.
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Comments (3)
Dancing and singing action for health care inside a whole foods... http://vimeo.com/6774515
Posted by Mackey Swine | September 27, 2009 07:30 PM
I completely agree with Roam, and forwarded the back-of-the-napkin video he made to everyone I knew.
But being without a tv, I haven't seen FoxBusiness in a long time, so I have to ask: are mildly drunk hootchie "news"casters with Palin-esque shrieks now the norm over there? Horrifying that this is the delivery necessary to reach people.
Posted by Nicole Maron | September 28, 2009 05:10 PM
Yeah, that newscaster is pretty special, eh?
Posted by tim redmond | September 28, 2009 06:32 PM