Of course we should have nationalized universal health care where health workers are government workers sans the unions and strike rights.  They would make what those in other fields requiring comparable education make.  Patents on drugs would be eliminated and the nationalized health service would negotiate for best drug prices.

Now the dems when they had the power did not bring this to us.  The Repubs probably won't but Trump might actually think about it.  So we are stuck with a system where getting a wart burned off with liquid nitrogen, a two minute doctor's office procedure, costs $800.

Nothing in the editorial addresses the essential dysfunction of medical care.  The BS about hospital charity is nonsense.  Drops in the ocean.  No matter what we do we cannot provide good coverage for all with the current fee structure in medicine.  Can't happen.  Waste time on partisan blah blah.  Doesn't matter, we can't pay for it in the current overpriced system.