This Single Mom Was Told to Raise $10k for a Heart Transplant and People Are Outraged. They Shouldn’t Be

Hedda Martin is a single mother who was recently rejected as a candidate for a heart transplant "due to needing [a] more secure financial plan for immunosuppressive medication coverage." To account for this, the hospital group recommended "a fundraising effort of $10,000."

Democratic socialist Ocasio-Cortez and others used this story to depict the horrors of capitalism and push for single-payer health care. But what they actually demonstrated was that a system which allows for prices to function normally will always be superior to a system that relies on central planning and coercion.