NPR's Diane Rehm show this morning surprisingly was not about Donald Trump. Instead the show focused its attention on all the serious issues with the Affordable Care Act: double digit premium hikes and companies dropping out of the exchanges. "What will the next President do to fix it?" they asked. Because fixing the signature legislative accomplishment of President Obama is "complicated."

Which, of course, is a lie. It's not complicated. The correct answer is to adopt universal single payer insurance (i.e., Medicare for all) in which the government can negotiate drug prices with the big pharmaceutical companies, something they are prohibited from doing now. That would immediately cut costs and reduce the amount we pay for health care as a percentage of our gross domestic product in half. In short, do what Bernie Sanders called for during his campaign. But not one of the experts on the Rehm show took that solution seriously. They all talked about a "market oriented" solution, whether they were conservative experts or "liberal" experts. Gosh, I wonder why?