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In most of the world's democracies, tax prep is really easy: the government uses its own employer-supplied payroll records to estimate your taxes, fills in a tax return for you and mails it to you.

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If it looks good, you sign it and return it. If not, you amend it (or hire an accountant to do so).

But not in the USA: here, the tax-prep industry makes billions charging Americans to gather information the IRS already has and send it to the IRS (again).

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Naturally - this is America ca. 2020, after all - the tax-prep industry is highly concentrated, with a few megafirms capturing nearly 100% of the business, and when industries are that concentrated, they get to write their own rules.

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I have been writing a column for @locusmag for 14 years (!) and it's been some of my best work.

Blogging (and tweet-threading) is a good way to keep track of the ideas and events that seem significant - breaking them down for an audience helps me make sense of them.

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The value of all that short-form work comes together when it's time to do something longer and more synthetic, pulling on all these threads that I've carefully teased out and organized in my own personal memex.

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Today, Locus published my longest, most substantial column ever, a piece that I wrote in something of a white heat about a month ago, called (somewhat ironically): "IP."

locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-d…

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Zachary Sussman is a pathologist who oversaw covid tests at 4 standalone ERs for Physicians Premier, but he resigned in horror after he got a $8 covid test at one of the company's locations and then they billed his insurer $10,984.16 for it.

propublica.org/article/a-doct…

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In an outstanding investigation for @propublica and the @TexasTribune, @marshall_allen reveals how both @MD_PremiER and @UHC - the nation's largest insurer - feed into this system of fraudulent price-gouging through a combination of greed and indifference.

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There are elements of this that are just straight-up fraud: the coding on Sussman's bill includes charges for procedures that simply were not performed, like an antibody test, an in-depth investigation, a problem-focused history, a nasal swab, etc.

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