The Sad Case of Waiting-Room Willie (1949.American Visuals) (Truman Library).cbr
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American Visuals Comp. featuring art by Will Eisner.
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In 1949/1950, President Harry S Truman proposed a national healthcare system, and the plan was to insure that all communities, regardless of their size or income level, had access to doctors and hospitals. Both the AMA and local medical societies objected to this proposal.
To publicize their opposition, the Baltimore City Medical Society, a component of MedChi, published a comic book entitled, “The Sad Case of Waiting Room Willie” in which poor Willie thinks that nationalized medicine sounds great until he gets sick.
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Found on the 'Cold War comics about communism' site.
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An review of the comic can be found on the Graphic Medicine.org link above. |
