Page 1 Roundup (05/16)

Obamacare was never going to be the most efficient way to regulate for-profit insurers. (What we need is single-payer health care, but we're too f**ked as a nation to get it.) But when you had Republican leaders brainwashing more than half the country into thinking it wouldn't work -- and encouraging insurers to not cooperate -- well then it went from inefficient to nearly impossible, as this latest blow reveals. (Yay, how American to undermine a program designed to help Americans!)

The L.A. Times lets a transgender 9-year-old tells her story HERE. And The N.Y. Times has a fascinating story about a couple whose marriage could not withstand a transgender secret -- but sure might have HERE.