The Free Market Doesn’t Care if You Live or Die

by Salty Oldman | EDITORIAL, NEWS, OPINION & EDITORIAL, POLITICS

Your health insurance is renewing, congratulations, and by the way, it’s going to cost a lot more next year. Maybe twice as much, maybe five times, depending on how much you make and how little Congress feels like doing its job. That’s about 400,000 Virginians whose...

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