Having been involved in health care in both California and Texas, it's still so surprising to me how they can get it both right and wrong at the same time. But

Having been involved in health care in both California and Texas, it's still so surprising to me how they can get it both right and wrong at the same time. But there's one thing that I wish would change - this attitude that a single payer system is the death knell for healthcare. Handing it over to shareholder owned corporations like the ACA did sure hasn't worked out very well. This is one of the areas that I agree with Trump, oddly enough - no more cuts to Medicare, and if we simply can't manage to get a single payer program going, allow existing insurance companies to compete across state lines. We could start with dental. Appropriate dental care can help prevent a whole bunch of other problems. But the shareholders making decisions? No. That needs to stop. Random side note: "When they inserted a needle into Oregón’s arm to draw blood, a procedure that, even in a heavily sedated patient, would cause a flinch, he didn’t move" I'm a Paramedic, and can tell you that the number of people that flinch when I'm starting an IV on them or doing a blood draw is actually pretty low. Sedated or not.