Pinback Button, "It's The Insurance Companies, Stupid!"
Object Details
- Medium
- metal, plastic, paper
- Dimensions
- 2 1/16 × 2 1/16 × 3/8 in. (5.3 × 5.3 × 1 cm)
- Cite As
- Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Vernice D. Miller-Travis
- Caption
- This square pinback button advocates for universal health care access. The pin features white lettering against a black background reading "It's the insurance companies, stupid!". The expression, blaming insurance companies for the high cost of medical coverage, is a wordplay on a popular slogan from Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign: "It's the economy, stupid!".
- The button is among more than 200 collected by Washington, DC-based environmental justice advocate Vernice Miller-Travis.
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- Accession Number
- 2022.13.86
- Type
- pinback button
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- Anacostia Community Museum Collection
- Data Source
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Record ID
- acm_2022.13.86