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2 Articles by: Libby Watson

Libby Watson, a former staff writer for the New Republic, is the author of Sick Note, a Substack newsletter focused on the broken American health care system.

“I Pretty Much Immediately Discovered How Bad American Health Care Was”

Journalist Libby Watson started a newsletter to document the horrors of the US’s profit-driven health system. She spoke to us about the insurance industry’s windfall COVID-19 profits, Joe Biden’s phantom public option proposal, and how growing up with Britain’s National Health Service made her experiences with America’s grotesque system all the more enraging.