> So you could make the case that at this point private health insurance is, in large part, a parasitical racket. At which point at least some readers will ask

> So you could make the case that at this point private health insurance is, in large part, a parasitical racket. At which point at least some readers will ask me why I didn’t back Bernie Sanders in his call for single-payer, Medicare for all. > The answer is that this call was and remains politically unrealistic. The USA is so ff-ed for normal people and it will get so much worse. Not for the HN temporary embarrassed millionaire crowd here of course. Meanwhile George Carlin said it best: > it’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.