What we learn so often is so little about how bills are killed in the Legislature.

The Lund Report, which requires a subscription for its best content, has an intriguing account of the death of House Bill 4130. Maybe the bill should have died. When a reporter from the Lund Report sought answers about how it died, it was hard to get a clear picture.

The bill took on a complicated issue. It aimed to put limits on the power of corporations to control the medical care that gets delivered in doctor’s offices. It’s a simplification, but the way a doctor treats a patient should be determined by that patient’s needs and medical judgment, not direction from corporate ownership.

It’s admittedly challenging to solve that in a short session. There was a key lobbying meeting held behind closed doors, as the Lund Report wrote. The bill apparently died on Senate President Robert Wagner’s desk and “a spokesperson for Wagner said he was unavailable for an interview,” The Lund Report wrote.

It may have been smart politics to wait for the next session. It’s hard for the public to tell.