Employer-paid medical coverage causes a many kinds of bureaucratic disasters because each company has its own list of allowed doctors and hospitals.

Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In.

I highly recommend Ted Chiang's book, Stories of Your Life and Others. If you buy a copy, please pay cash only — don't let a business track what you read. And especially don't get the commercial ebooks that impose DRM and require you to promise to act like a jerk.

I bought a printed copy and paid cash.

"Tea Party" Republicans undermined the US stockpile of N95 masks. They pretend that no one could have guessed that the US would need hundreds of millions of masks, but they didn't need to guess, only to listen. Their ideological opposition to making use of government to serve all of society throws us into helpless dependence on the plutocrats that they serve. We need to reclaim control of the state, so that it can do the many jobs that only a state can do.

[The saboteur in chief] has been hesitant to invoke the Defense Production Act for medical gear. But he's already used it hundreds of thousands of times for weapons and bombs.

Under Cover of Pandemic, Trump's NLRB Moves to Make Unionizing 'Nearly Impossible for Workers'.