The jacket description might add detail, but won't add more than that. You read it and know exactly what the book's going to be about. The artwork is on the same level as an illustrated Heimlich Maneuver or a Smokey the Bear public service announcement, but it’s fun and it gets across an important argument.
The author is an M.I.T economist who played a role in both efforts and seems impartial between them. Health Care Reform deals with both the Massachusetts version associated with Mitt Romney, as well as the Affordable Care Act initiated by Barack Obama. If all of the people nattering on about “Obamacare” had at least this much grasp of the issue, at least we would have a common vocabulary, before bringing in our political axes to grind. I feel that I have had an illustrated review of all of the basic principles. Health Care Reform (the comic book) is not that great as art or as a graphic novel, but it does go a long way toward explaining a topic that many people feel strongly about, but that few people can talk about knowingly.
I’m beginning to think that comics can deal with the deepest subjects, from the foundations of mathematics (Logicomics) to the Holocaust (Maus). But it’s a serious comic book, about Health Care Reform. I have a stack of serious books to read, and here I am reading a comic book.
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