Rob Rogers is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His cartoons have been vexing and entertaining readers in Pittsburgh since 1984. Syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, Rogers’ work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek, among others.
Rogers has also been the curator of three national cartoon exhibitions, Too Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy through Political Cartoons (2003) and Drawn To The Summit: A G-20 Exhibition Of Political Cartoons (2009), both at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (2007) at the American University Museum. Rogers is an active member (and past president) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His work received the 2000 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club, the 1995 National Headliner Award, and numerous Golden Quills. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2009, Rogers celebrated 25 years as a Pittsburgh editorial cartoonist with the release of his book, No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
He is currently serving as board president of the ToonSeum, a cartoon museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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braindead08 said, 8 months ago
And I live in the great state of ….
Murphy224 said, 8 months ago
Worked fine in Massachusetts, but watch the costs triple once the South and Southwest states are forced in. Not to mention wait times for a dr. appt. will be about 6 months to a year unless the Dems have a secret “doctor tree” they’re not telling us about.
Radish
said, 8 months ago
Wasn’t ‘Obamacare’ based on Gov Romneys Mass health care plan?
Clark Kent said, 8 months ago
We should have universal healthcare in the USA like all the other industrialized countries have. It’s a disgrace that we don’t.
Kylie2112 said, 8 months ago
@Murphy224
Education (especially for doctors) should be FAR more affordable. There are plenty of damn good nurses out there who should be medical doctors, but couldn’t afford med school. You have for-profit insurance companies, for-profit schools, and for-profit hospitals here…you REALLY think that’s a good idea?
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We need a way to get the education to those who are both able and willing to take up medical professions.
motivemagus said, 8 months ago
@Radish
Yes. Obama wanted single-payer, but knew he couldn’t even propose it, so instead he proposed a nonprofit (but self-paying) insurance company backed by the government. The so-called free-marketers didn’t dare threaten the insurance industry by having, you know, ACTUAL competition (despite “private industry is more efficient than the government” bushwah), so he went with Romney’s plan, which was praised to the heavens by the GOP a few years ago.
Jase99 said, 8 months ago
@Murphy224
“Not to mention wait times for a dr. appt. will be about 6 months to a year unless the Dems have a secret “doctor tree” they’re not telling us about.”
And why would that happen?
onguard said, 8 months ago
Dem Libs building Illusions, their one productive effort
mikefive said, 8 months ago
@Jase99 I did some cursory research on this, and It seems to be a fact of life with socialized medicine. Some of the sites used the median wait time instead of the mean. (usually a technique to hide how bad the numbers really are) They also break down their numbers into emergency, acute, chronic, etc. categories. Good hunting!
coraryan
said, 8 months ago
@Jase99
Let me explain supply & demand. Take X number of doctors, add XXXXXX number of patients. Only so much time to go around. Got it now?
Dycel
said, 8 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Supporting privatized providers again howzy?
According to my friend from Liverpool it works great they have mandated rules by law for wait times for services with no pre-existing conditions and its free.
In 2007 the healthcare industry was spending .42 cents of each premium dollar for health services to their clients, .52 cents went into admin, CEO bonus’s, lobbists and politicians!
Your point is ?
Harleyquinn
said, 8 months ago
Obama’s is a mirror on one side and a teleprompter on the other.
Radish
said, 8 months ago
@coraryan
Let me explain the free market to you. If there were more doctors the patients would have more choice and the price would fall. But they want to keep medicine as a gild to keep the price up.
Northern Redman said, 8 months ago
@Dycel
Ask your friend how well it was working during the influenza outbreak of 1999-2001, when I was working in Manchester. 21,000 people in the UK died from the flu and the wait time to see a doctor exceeded 72 hours.
Fourcrows said, 8 months ago
@Murphy224
We have wait times like that now if you don’t have the proper insurance. I have a scar from a bullet wound from when I was seven. They weren’t able to stitch it because I spent 13 hours in the emergency waiting room waiting to see a doctor. The infection had set in by that time, and now I have partial blindness in my left eye as a result.
My insurance prevents my wife from seeing an endocrinologist for her diabetes, because they will not cover the endocrinology clinic in our state. Wait times for specialists can exceed six months now. I even have a three month wait time to see my own doctor, so I generally go to the emergency room and he does the follow up. I would love to have something as efficient as the British system.