Why we shouldn’t live in Middle Earth…

In last Thursday’s NY Times article “Health Law Fails to Keep Prices Low in Rural Areas,” the Times editors dropped the ball again. (I guess it’s picking-on-the-Times week, but they’re starting to irk me, for many reasons.) Every flaw in implementing the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is attributable to one thing: putting companies and contractors in the middle! In a single-payer system, none of this would happen. The website might still have problems because government programmers (cont...