Slog

News & Arts

The Stranger Suggests

Critics' Best Bets
Music Arts & Food

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

  |  

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Health / Politics Flow Chart Wars

Posted by on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM

Republicans had a flowchart—an inscrutable, unwieldy, color-coded expanse of cardboard—that they toted around to town hall meetings to reveal the supposedly terrible, no good health care plan hatched by Democrats. You can see it by clicking here. And a photo of someone carrying the chart (next to a "kill the bill not grandma" sign) is over here.

Not to be outdone in the department of difficult visual communications, liberals have created their own (equally inscrutable) though more graphically appealing flow chart on Who Is Paying to Kill Health Care Reform, which stems from America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the health insurance lobby. Click on the image to enlarge it.

who_is_killing_health_reform.jpg

Stay tuned for a flow chart of who is making flow charts. In the meantime, the best flow chart ever made is right here.

 

Comments (11) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment
Baconcat 1
Oh, tpfd, how I love thee and your panflut flowchart.

I AM A GREAT BIG* HIPSTER, THEREFORE I LOVE TOOTHPASTE FOR DINNER. IT IS COMEDY THAT SPEAKS TO ME.

*fat
Posted by Baconcat on August 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM
2
This might be a little old news for some of you guys - but this is well done and should be shared again:

http://www.donkeylicious.com/2009/08/flo…
Posted by MEC on August 27, 2009 at 9:59 AM
rob! 3
If you're gonna have one, have a big one, I always say... with some notable exceptions, like heart attacks, hemorrhoids, and Hummers (capital-aitch).
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on August 27, 2009 at 10:01 AM
4
I submit this as the best flowchart:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/29416…
Posted by Avtar on August 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM
w7ngman 5
I can summarize the Republican flow chart:

"Gub'mint be complicated"
Posted by w7ngman http://userscripts.org/users/89370 on August 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM
w7ngman 6
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/flow_charts.…
Posted by w7ngman http://userscripts.org/users/89370 on August 27, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Will in Seattle 7
@5 - no, it's "This is what insane Republicans think Government should look like".

And if we let them near the reins again, it's what it will look like, but even more byzantine.

Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on August 27, 2009 at 11:23 AM
crazycatguy 8
I use a flow chart to decide whether to get out of bed in the morning. It's a lot like the one for a panflute.
Posted by crazycatguy on August 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM
w7ngman 9
@8

<Do I want to get out of bed?> ---no---> [Don't get out of bed]
Posted by w7ngman http://userscripts.org/users/89370 on August 27, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Julie in Eugene 10
Another funny flowchart: does your website need a Flash intro?
Posted by Julie in Eugene on August 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM
11 Comment Pulled (Spam) Comment Policy

Add a comment

Advertisement
 

Want great deals and a chance to win tickets to the best shows in Seattle? Join The Stranger Presents email list!


All contents © Index Newspapers, LLC
1535 11th Ave (Third Floor), Seattle, WA 98122
Contact Info | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Takedown Policy