If you don't understand the requirements being placed on you by Obamacare, or don't see the benefits the administration swears are there, fear not.
Your answers and fears will be explained in a comic book coming this fall.
Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economics wizard who devised the economic foundations of Obamacare told the Boston Herald he got the idea for a comic book from his three children.
The Herald reports that Gruber's comic book will not include a super-powered hero or a villain.
Gruber told the Pulse he would use "the facts" to tell the story of the health care law and promised "lots of pictures and text."
Gruber's editor, Thomas LeBien, first approached Gruber with the idea last summer, but Gruber "almost turned him down flat." LeBien explains that the graphic novel is an excellent way to tell complicated stories. The Herald reports that LeBien "used the format to explain the U.S. Constitution and Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks."
“There’s a long tradition of turning to them to take complicated information and render it accessible to the widest audience,” he said.
Gruber has spent much of the last ten years pushing for health care reform. In his view, Americans face a "fundamental lack of economic security." “If you don’t get insurance from your employer, you are one bad gene, or one bad car accident away from losing everything,” he said.
Initially, he doubted the idea was worthwhile, but said his wife and children encouraged him to use the popular media to sell and explain the law, which he says many people do not understand. “I’ve found that when people understand it, they like it,” he said.
The Herald reports that even some critics applaud the move to propagandize Americans on the law Washington Senator Patty Murray helped write:
Even one of the national health plan’s fiercest critics, Michael F. Cannon of the free market Cato Institute in Washington D.C., tipped his hat to Gruber’s comic book.
“I’ve got to hand it to him,” said Cannon, the think tank’s director of health policy studies. “It’s a brilliant idea.”
The House of Representatives recently voted to repeal the law, and a federal judge ruled the law unconstitutional. Democrats, however, plan to push ahead with the law despite Judge Vinson's ruling.
Perhaps LeBien should put together a comic book explaining what it means when a law is struck down by a federal judge.
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“There’s a long tradition of turning to them [comic book s] to take complicated information and render it accessible to the widest audience,”
For who? Six year olds!
So the libs think they can convince America that Oboma Care is good by giving everyone a comic book, at tax payer expense?
Give me a break.
You hit the nail on the head.
Still they cling, almost a year after signing it into law, the mantra of "you just don't like it because you don't understand it." Well, we understand it better than ever, and the more we understand it, the more we dislike it. The fact that they are putting it out there in comic book format just reinforces how stupid they think we are, as if we're children trying to grasp a concept too far above our heads. I'll put money on it that these comic books don't mention why real estate taxes, student loans, and other non-related pork projects are in a health insurance bill, too.
Does the government think we are idiots?
well at least the intellectually challenged obammy now has a glimmer of a chance at understanding the ruination his namesake law causes to America
Speed it up if you can! The Kaiser Family Foundation published a poll showing that the more you know about the ACA, the more positive you are about it. It confirms that the American public has been misled and is woefully ignorant of the facts. Still, I'm afraid that many potential voters are beyond reach and unwilling to challenge their preconceptions with facts.
This is exactly how the communist leader Mao helped take over China. I love comic books but will not be reading this one. Will they also include how much it's going to actually cost America for this abomination? I am so sick and tired of having legislation rammed down my thoat. This is America and we have the right to decide what it best for each of us.
When will our government realize that we do need reforms in the insurance industry but not the health-care were they have amendments in it that are hidden from the public and can only be found when searching specifically for them?
Will they use this bill to ban what it calls "unhealthy behaviors" such as keeping a loaded firearm in your home for self-defense? Just something I heard that can happen. Not saying they will do that, but with our government it is impossible to know exactly what they are up to in their sometimes devious little minds!
Hey, Joseph, how about we do a comic book that explains what it means when a judge says your law is unconstitutional, make 535 copies of it and distribute it to members of Congress?
Better yet, let's get R. Lee Ermey to go over there and put 'em in the pit! Now that would be a sight.
I think it's a good idea. I met an adult recently who thought the buy-in mandate applied to everyone, just because they exist. Maybe a simple exposition of the facts will help lay such misperceptions to rest.
Joe yeah maybe we can get R. Lee to do it. Hardcorps, this healthcare is so full of deceit. There are things in it I am sure that the real meaning behind it will not be discovered until they say hey oh yeah we snuck this amendment in there and now you have to obey it. It's just like lawmakers to deceive us, it's called slight of hand!
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