1. HEALTH CARE POLITICAL CARTOONS HEALTH CARE POLITICAL CARTOONS
SOCIAL STUDIES 30
SOCIAL STUDIES 30
HEALTH CARE POLITICAL CARTOONS
HEALTH CARE POLITICAL CARTOONS

2. WORLD LEADERS

3. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

4. U.S. President Barack Obama

5. INSURANCE AND DRUG COMPANIES

6. Preferred Solution Family Healthcare
U.S. HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS (HMOs)
Aetna Inc.
Humana Inc.
Assurant Health
Kaiser Permanente
BlueCross BlueShield
Association
Preferred Solution Family Healthcare
Cigna
UnitedHealth Group
Health Net Inc.
WellPoint Inc.

7. MAJOR U.S. PHARMACEUTICAL (DRUG) COMPANIES
Johnson & Johnson
Pfizer Inc.
Merck & Co. Inc.
Bayer HealthCare

8. COUNTRY FLAGS

9. COUNTRY FLAGS
Canada
Cuba
United States
France
United Kingdom

10. WRITTEN COMPONENT EXEMPLAR

11. CAPTION – focuses the viewer’s attention on the main speaker (Barack Obama) and the issue being presented (the costs of health care)
ANALOGY – compares the costs of reforming the U.S. health care system to the costs of fighting the war in Iraq
SYMBOLISM – health care reform is symbolized as a shiny ambulance (the lines coming off of it from above); the war in Iraq is symbolized as a tank and the critic of health care reform is symbolized as an elephant (the symbol of the Republican Party, the opposition of Obama’s Democratic Party)
LABELS & SPEECH – the ambulance is labeled “health care reform” and the tank is labeled “unnecessary war” to clarify what they symbolize; the elephant is exclaiming that the price of health care reform is too much money (“outrageous!!”)
RELATIVE SIZE – the price tags are oversized to reflect their large value (and to make them easier to read)
CARICATURE – Obama is caricaturized with big lips, oversized ears and his hands clasped together in a thoughtful pose
CONTRAST – shading around the edges of the vehicles; darkening Obama’s clothes and the clothes of the elephant make these objects stand out against the white background

12. PROJECT INSTRUCTIONS SUGGESTED TOPICS LIST ACCESSIBILITY
Working on your own, you will create two political cartoons about health care that will:
ACCESSIBILITY
doctor shortages
wait times
both be a minimum of 4¼” x 5½” in size
PAYING FOR HEALTH CARE
effects of an aging population
both focus on one general topic related to health—see the “Suggested Topics List” on the right
health insurance
prescription drug costs
privatized health care
feature one cartoon with a collectivist perspective and the other an individualist perspective on the same topic
public health care
two-tier health care
QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE
each use AT LEAST FOUR techniques of political cartooning in each cartoon
provide a brief written component (on the back of each cartoon) that briefly explains how or why you used each technique of cartooning in that cartoon