Dumbest Health Care in the World

Thank you Matt Taibbi for this opener:

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment — a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

 Keep reading.  Taibbi combines a certain gonzo directness with lots of lucid detail on political processes that people really need to know in order to understand what is happening in their government.