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Writing

Long-form pieces I've written and chose to publish: structured arguments and reasoned analyses, usually starting from first principles. Each one is a deliberate, revisable artifact, not a dated post.

Essays

Why is US Healthcare So Expensive?

A first-principles analysis of why US healthcare costs 2–3× what comparable countries pay. Walks through the thought experiment of opening a cheaper hospital and discovering, one by one, the regulatory and contractual structures that block it. Five direct barriers, two secondary factors, and what a working reform package would change.

When a piece grows big enough to deserve its own repo, it'll live there with a link from here.