Friday, February 11, 2011

Coming This Fall: "ObamaCare, the Comic Book!"

The Democrats couldn't bother to actually read Barack Obama's health care bill. He himself didn't. It was, after all, written by lobbyists and filled 2,400 pages. Nancy Pelosi herself famously testified that "we need to pass it to find out what's in it."

Well, finally, Ms. Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Conyers and all the rest might finally get some help in understanding the massive boondoggle they forced onto the American people.

It's coming out as a comic book!

Christine McConville from the Boston Herald has the story:

The MIT economics whiz who crafted President Obama’s national health-care overhaul now plans to explain the complex and controversial plan to the masses — in one long comic book.

Jonathan Gruber, a nationally recognized health economist who devised the economic underpinnings of Obamacare (Gruber hates the term), said his three comic-loving kids encouraged him to use the hip format of the graphic novel — basically an expensive comic published in book form — to tell the story of the complicated plan to 300 million Americans.

Unlike most comic books, Gruber’s won’t have a superhero like Batman or Captain America or a villain like the Joker, he said.

“I’m going to use the facts to tell the story,” Gruber, 45, told the Pulse yesterday. “I’m the narrator guiding the reader through the law. It’ll have lots of pictures and text.”

Hill and Wang, a division of publishing powerhouse Farrar, Straus and Giroux, plans to release Gruber’s book, tentatively titled “Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How it Works” this fall...