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App based on US healthcare is surprise hit: 5 iPhone games that could take on social policy
Shiny Shiny, December 10, 2009
You might not think that an iPhone app exploring social policy would really take off. I mean, there are Wallace and Gromit comics to compete with on the app store. But actually a gaming app based on the current debate over the US health care system has been a surprise success.
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Macsimum News, December 10, 2009
In the weeks since the House passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, claims, figures, and statistics have been passed off as facts or lies depending on who you ask, as people struggle to educate themselves on the U.S. health care industry. Now, iPhone users can gauge their knowledge of health care reform with the launch of Death Panel, a free iPhone and iPod touch game from People Operating Technology. The game is purportedly non-political, non-partisan and incorporates third-party facts into game play via a quiz-like interface.
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U.S. Health Care Reform Subject of iPhone App
Game Politics, December 10, 2009
People Operating Technology has launched the free iPhone & iPod Touch application Death Panel in the Apple Store. Promised to be “100% non-political,” the app’s quiz questions and facts are fed by data collected from the White House website, StateHealthFacts.org, the NCHC.org, and FactCheck.org. -
A death panel Palin is right to fear
Smart Planet, December 10, 2009
A firm called People Operating Technology has released an iPhone app called Death Panel. It’s free and said by its makers to be “100% non-political, non-partisan” incorporating “third-party facts.” But this is still a Death Panel Sarah Palin has reason to fear.
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iPhone Users Get U.S. Health Care Education via New Game
Softpedia, December 10, 2009
iPhone users in the United States who would like to educate themselves in the U.S. health care industry ca do so in a fun and attractive way from now on, through a new game from People Operating Technology, namely Death Panel. The new title is available for free for those using either an Apple iPhone or an iPod Touch, the company says.