The Quest for Health Reform: A Satirical History

The Quest for Health Reform: A Satirical History brings together two American political traditions - editorial cartooning as a medium for trenchant contemporary commentary and the long-standing effort to achieve universal national health reform. As early as the nineteenth century, caricatures and cartoons parodied the leading personalities and institutions in American politics. This book focuses on national health reform as told through the vision of popular editorial cartoonists.The book spans from Theodore Roosevelt's suppor for protectiion from "the hazards of sickness" in 1912 to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act in 2012.The book brings together the work of more than 27 cartoonists, including 10 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.