I'm trying to wrap my head around how the healthcare system(s) here in the US work (and, for that matter, in other parts of the world). Lots of terminology -- eg Primary Care, Ambulatory Care, Urgent Care, HMO, PPO, etc -- and different players consolidating, allying, privatizing, profitizing, non-profiting, and more. It's still largely a mysterious soup to me, but here are some of the visuals I've come across. Note that several of these have been commissioned by partisans in the so-called US Healthcare Reform debates. Here's Dan Roam and Dr Tony Jones
Back of the Napkin slideshow...
![](http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNzA*MTUwOTU4ODAmcHQ9MTI3MDQxNTEwMzU4OCZwPTEwMTkxJmQ9c3NfZW1iZWQmZz*yJm89NzJiYjVlN2FjMjg4/NGFhMjhmZTNhYzk1YzY4Mzk3NTImb2Y9MA==.gif)
Here's the barfographic produced by Republicrats...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXu1op4oAlg6tvns1SDMqEmDZduo-OtOSGfm7Yj-MKHIaPjOIGa5NJ6qZKlsP4lKAQjtB5pm2d6RbDd3rAxCkIR7cA8nA26lrVrs5cirkqxCTLGQ-Y8Hbu5mLUtNKzz2zyqVm5nL4AOQ/s400/dems-health-plan-map-resized-600.jpg.png)
Countering this crapgraphic, the
Demogogues banged this out...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyXPDj2M6VbukgOl9klllf1xqwytsFpl-1GDSjob8f8oMHMQM8kX7fdGq7ycaVENduaYhSxtIAP5IylwP4Df8pF8xsAVOVh-kLTfRMDPoZblP9VXnoGFzXtF3YBSirkKmbjILeFSeXug/s400/redesigned_jec.jpg)
And here's the
New Republic's Health Care System map...
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-v282AKzoNOJ2GMzavhgW5bkLettGY0d4fBclYRhVERbi3sU9WFLAzX66Ar3TQ8F3yho4xecKMMt5QJyWDZfWHPUMICvdbjuhhlwHOdV4DhpkkKUP_f6WQg_5ReZYcLpPwcmGj2abog/s400/HealthCareMap.jpg)
None of these terribly satisfying. And I'm as confused as before.
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