“Health Care is for People, Not for Profit” poster
This image is a poster on healthcare issues, designed by the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective in 1975. Founded in 1970, the Chicago Women’s Graphics Collective supported itself through designing and selling many striking posters until its dissolution in 1983. This specific poster speaks on how healthcare should not be created in a system for profit but in a system that is ethical and for the people, highlighting how access to healthcare has been an issue in America in the 1970s.
Due to a mix-up in 1902 when the U.S Army Medical Corps mistakenly adopted the caduceus as its symbol, the symbol in the poster is inaccurate; instead of a single serpent coiling around the ancient Rod of Asclepius, the symbol has two serpents coiling around the Roman god Mercury.
