Health Care Explained On The Back Of A Napkin (SLIDESHOW)

Dan Roam explains things, usually on the back of napkins. He does it so much that he wrote a book about it, and now runs a blog about it. In his latest effort to employ visual understanding and couple it with humor, he's come up with a guide to understanding health care reform (or insurance reform as he calls it).


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Healthcare Napkins All

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[cbyers]

01:22 AM on 08/25/2009

That was great. However, it might have been a good idea to show why Obama doesn't support the HR 676 medicare-for-all bill. Under the provisions set in that bill, hospitals would be paid medicare rates, which are about half what insurance companies pay. That would put tons of hospitals out of business. I get the feeling that Obama might have supported a single payer plan if it took a form closer to that of France or Japan's system.

[JakePeabody]

10:41 AM on 08/24/2009

Well done. All I can say. If only Faux News would let him be a commentator and take Glenn and Bill of the air.

[taquinas]

09:55 AM on 08/24/2009

Brilliant. Fantastic. Now how do we get a republican to sit through it? We already know they are speaking against their own interests. May be we can net the the curious ones.

[KantheDem]

02:05 PM on 08/22/2009

single payer system!!!

[imperator prime]

02:03 AM on 08/22/2009

Sadly that one close to the end-- the choice between shouting and thinking-- neglects to explicitly identify one of the major obstacles right now: Joe Average who's so brainwashed by partisan stupidity that he isn't even thinking for himself about what to shout. Needs another napkin with the little blue Insurance guy forking over your money to certain people in the government and media, and them in turn showering misinformation on the public and telling them *what* to shout.

[Lahonda]

10:23 PM on 08/21/2009

Mr. Roam,

Thanks for this excellent contribution to the debate.

Simple. The public option represents the minimum cost per insured over the long run and end of life funding in the document establishes regulation protecting citizens' rights to be able to afford to simply "choose".

[Lahonda]

09:04 PM on 08/21/2009

Just like the financial relationship between oil and cars... where did that lead?

Remember the scene in Back to the Future where a gas station crew jumped out there to serve you gas?

[Lahonda]

11:13 PM on 08/21/2009

...as in, "How's that worked out lately?"

[AngelaQuattrano]

06:10 PM on 08/21/2009

Clearly from the perspective of the employee who gets health care from their employer. But that's the battle we have raging today. 3 groups: Those with government insurance, those with employer-provided insurance, and the uninsured, battling it out, the first two groups trying to get more for less and the third trying to get anything at all.

[Bill Swadley]

05:30 PM on 08/21/2009

Fantastic illustration. I think if there were less shouting and a lot more whiteboards a lot fewer people would be misinformed.

Thanks, Mr. Roam!

[debtfree9]

04:29 PM on 08/21/2009

This may not be perfect but it is a lot better than yelling and shouting by folks who don't have a clue. Make this presentation and then fill in with extra info.

[rodajones]

01:30 PM on 08/21/2009

Medicare for all please!

[cforcat]

10:16 AM on 08/21/2009

still not sure the townhall folks will get it. and you can forget about the ones who keep referring to hitler..

too many big words and complicated jargon (like "business", "insurance", "non-profit")...

aim low.

[jaschrod]

09:16 AM on 08/21/2009

The option will do one thing that is needed, it will drive down insurance cost. That is why the insurance companies are fighting it so hard, they are afraid it will be successful.

[climatebabes]

08:36 AM on 08/21/2009

The presentation suggest equal cost, but of course the public option will drive cost down!

[Samcat604]

10:19 AM on 08/21/2009

How does covering millions of people who can not pay for it themselves going to make costs go down?

And no, Medicare is not more efficient than private insurers. Medicare has a 7.5% fraud rate that blows it "low" overhead out of the water.

[taquinas]

10:20 PM on 08/24/2009

The government is going to limit CEO and executive pay. Bush and co didn't regulate health care providers (not doctors and nurses but hospital chains) from stealing 'fraud' from the Medicare.

[seattle music]

03:27 AM on 08/21/2009

We only need one napkin.

It says: "SINGLE-PAYER is still ON my table."

Get it done.

[DennisMM]

01:43 PM on 08/21/2009

Not gonna happen this year, next year, or the year after that. Maybe if O gets a second term.