the way that these market advocates talk, it's like a free market in health care means you magically have unlimited resources.

rationing is at the crux of any health care delivery system. the choice isn't between rationing or not rationing, it's between being honest about it or deluding yourself - and about democratizing the systems that make the decisions.

my understanding is that they actually do have death panels in the united states. they're called insurance boards. and, we don't have those here. but, we do need to make hard choices in a broader-based sense, and that's something that no amount of funding is going to resolve.

when i look at something like the opioid "crisis", i just see a drain on the system. it's wasteful. and, my communist spidey senses go fucking nuts.

jagmeet singh must cut his  beard.