healthcare

Among those in critical condition following last Friday's mass shooting at a midnight The Dark Knight Rises screening in Aurora, Colorado is Caleb Medley, an aspiring comedian and Batman fan. Medley lost his right eye in the incident, which took the lives of 12 people and injured dozens of others, and he is presently in a medically induced coma and breathing with the aid of a ventilator... Read Mo

Today, the Boston Herald reported that MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of President Obama's health care reform bill, was working with Thomas LeBien, editor of the graphic novel version of The 9/11 Commission Report, to create a comic book with the goal of making the 2,400-page bill a little easier for non-politicians to understand...

Ever wonder what Superman would have to say about health care? Now we know thanks to olde-timey comics that address formerly -- and sometimes currently! -- socially relevant topics. If only Superman could fly down from the sky and fact-check every politician who tries to warp the debate over health care by claiming that Obama wants to kill old people...