This is the best illustration of the lunacy of the Right I've ever seen. If Pelosi, Reed and even Obama could/would as eloquently lay out the arguments as heard and repeated infinitely by the Rep Noise Machine, and SHOW all the flaws in their logic - like these cartoons do (and in such a supremely talented and funny way I might add) - we'd be in a much better place. Thank you for your contribution

Coming from a progressive - not a teaparty-foxhole:

This is stepping toward something good, but landing in dog-poop.

Forcing the poor (me) to buy something is forcing the poor (me) to subsidize the wealthy.

I'm all for healthcare for all, but this is about the most corporate version of that you could get.

One word: brilliant.

I have to say, dogboy was NOT reading the communistic/socialistic bill that Mark has him "reading" or he would have warned us of the danger of being FORCED to by a service!
I think all mandatory insurance laws are unconstitutional and as such should be repealed as well as ALL licences, plumbing , electric ,driving etc........

you fools let this government get another piece of your liberty every time you agree to one of their "Licenses"!

I believe it's a well illustrated cartoon. However, this illustrator is obviously brain washed by the hype of Obamacare. This bill may seem good and wholesome, but in reality, it's a death sentence. Now, millions of people who are in the middle and lower class are going to have to suffer and pay for the uninsured. Call us greedy and evil, but would you want to pay for some bum who hasn't seen a doctor in his life? If your child gets sick, do you honestly believe that you are covered? Well, they aren't. Instead, they may have to wait a few hours or maybe even days to see a doctor because everyone will want to see the doctors. Also, you seemed to leave out the part about a 40% surplus tax on everyone? Unless your "art" is very well known and a lot of people like to buy your work, I suggest you getting another job...because taxes will keep going up, and the government's control will sky rocket as well. Sorry to break it to you, Skippy.

Who cares about death panels? this bill will kill our nation and our middleclass and it wont even provide healthcare coverage for all! Not only that it mandates health insurance be purchased even if it can't be afforded!

Who cares if it does entail death panels? We might as well all be dead.

The health care bill takes 25 million from saftey net hospitals that serve the homeless and indignant. Millions will still have no coverage and the HMOs are bigger and evil than ever.

Those who think that the law will cost too much don't take account of the misery and and the staggeringly immense lost wealth (overwhelmingly, lost by the poor) that that we suffer now as a result of untreated illness. The law will go a great way toward curing that, not to mention the benefit of the multiplier effect of the increased spending.

Why don't those on the left who condemn the new law understand that given all that O needed to do early in his term, single-payer would not have passed now? This compromised law barely passed! Fight on, friends, but don't be cynical!

Putting Michael Moore in the cartoon was a nice touch.

Perhaps to help Mr. Dan out with his side of the argument:

Poll: Doctor Exodus

A buddy of mine thanks you for the laugh at the Dogboyian $148-billion-reduction-in-the-deficit comment. The same contention was tossed around here in Canada in 1946. Healthcare is now about 45% of our Federal budget.

Props for supporting the bill on compassionate grounds, but I beseech you not to discount the very real cost of insuring 30 million formerly-uninsured people.

- COTO

P.S. With your enduring proclivity for killing off Mr. Dan in unusual ways, I stand by my earlier thesis that these toons are stylized reenactments of arguments between you and your father.

Mr Fiore, please do a cartoon about the REAL facts about this evil bill. Its not universal health insruance like in Britain and scandanavia but mandatory insruance and other gimicks just like what Mitt Romney (R) gave us in Massachusettes.

Forced health insurance, forced car insurance, its all the same thing. In the end the poor get screwed and the cost keeps rising.

It is unconstitutional for the government to force you to buy something you don't want and/or can't afford. Now that insurance is mandatory, the companies have no incentives to lower prices. Costs eventually go up. Just like w/mandatory car insurance. Furthermore, the bill takes money away from saftey net heospitals (about 25Mil$) and means that those who WONT be insured will have it even worse.

PLEASE! Research the facts! This will do more harm than good! Only the big insurance companies will benefit from this unjust bill! WE NEED REAL UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE NOT WEALTHCARE FOR THE INSRUANCE COMPANIES!!

I love Dogboy and Mr. Dan!
But I agree with the comments that this law sucks.
Obama and the Dems sold us out to the insurance industry.
Still, I enjoyed the poking fun at the Foxholes. They like me are opposed to the bill, but for completely different reasons.
Dems are gonna lose big next election for having sold out all the people who thought they were voting for real change.

Good cartoon Mark!

My fav Mark, thanks for keeping Dogboy & Mr. Dan coming! Finally, when ya just get tired and fed up with listening to all the ridiculous and bizarre arguments against this health care bill, its great to be able to fall back on good old sarcastic allegory. It seems to bring out all the best responses from those it targets, and even better... its incredibly funny!! Thanks again, your hard work is very much appreciated :-)

Socialism, my ***. The bill allows even more profits for health organfizations and the drug manufacturers. How I wish what the cartoon says it is was true and that it was true equality for
all citizens without the profit makers being able to pad their pockets even more.

I've actually read the majority of the bill, it is much worse than socialism, it is forced-purchase of services enforced by the IRS. FU Fiore, I liked you during the Bush era, but it is abundantly apparent you are a partisan hack.