Thanks for the well wishes! Digging your horror stories so far!

Re: universal healthcare — the US system is trash for anyone who’s not mid to upper class (and even middle class is iffy), we can reasonably agree on that. I don’t think NHS-style medicine is the right way, but there are nations with all kinds of different healthcare systems and financing mechanisms (like Germany!) that manage to provide universal healthcare, or close to it, and have better outcomes generally than the US. I’m looking to write a post in the near-future exploring what other healthcare systems look like and how we could translate that to our systems, actually!

Keep in touch! I’m looking forward to hearing more from you on my future posts.