I'm starting to think this may be the only way to stop the incessant, low-productivity "whack-a-mole" legislative campaigns. Cut off the money feeding them.

The ACA could have been the entre into an effectively regulated system of universal coverage via private insurance, akin maybe to what Germany and some others have. But politics and self-interest won out over compromise and progress.

So, maybe it's time for a public/government payor plan to cut off the lifeblood of said politics and self-interest.

Not that it would/will be easy.