rejected. that piece outlines how confusion, distrust, and a single-minded fixation on vaccinating americans left testing on the back burner for so long at the white house. and look, i get why the administration was so focused on vaccinating america. it s a laudable goal. but now, here we are, two months later, fully immersed in a record-breaking spike in cases driven by a highly transmissible variant in the midst of a complete testing fiasco. just as children get ready to return to school from winter break tomorrow. joining me now to discuss all of this and more, is libby rosenthal, editor in chief at kaiser health news. she s been covering health care for over 20 years at multiple news outlets and author of american sickness: how health care became big business and how you can take it back. libby, thank you so much for coming on the show this morning. happy new year. let s begin by talking testing. i believe you, like me, went out in search of a covid test. you wrote about it in a