My latest column in the Telegraph:

The assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of Midtown Manhattan has spawned a cottage industry of apologetics for hating private health insurance companies. As a justification for murder, this is obscene. But it’s also a misdiagnosis of the landscape of American health insurance. . . . Public confidence in the American systems of health insurance and health care has plunged since Barack Obama turned the nation’s politics inside-out to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2009-10. That speaks to the unintended consequences of those “reforms” for the people at the margins. . . . It’s rich for progressives who have pushed for all of these developments — from guaranteed issue of policies to people with pre-existing conditions to mandates of what those policies cover — to now complain about increasing premiums and rising claim denial rates. What did they think would happen?