The failure to pass surprise billing legislation is the single most depressing development in politics. It is the bare minimum you can do to say, 'hey doctors and hospitals shouldn't be allowed to prey on people at their most vulnerable like evil ghouls.' Yet we didn't 1/
All you need to do to make a health care system work is decide you won't let providers rip people off. If you do that you can build a good system from any weird multi piece kludge you want. If you don't even the best design single payer will collapse under corruption 2/
The Dem presidential debate makes it feel like the debate has moved left but we still have a huge number of state/federal Dem who think making sure some doctors can buy a new Porsche every year is more important than stopping sick people from getting ripped off. 3/
