Reply #16: Here's how.

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1) The government sets up a single payer healthcare system.

2) Make it illegal to provide insurance for anything covered by the government system.



OR

1) A strong public option is created, which by its nature would be superior to insurance companies. The insurance companies eventually go out of business.


Oh, what would happen to the stockholders? They would be penalized for having put their money behind worthless bloodsucking entities that have been feeding off society since their creation. And don't give me that shit about "people don't even know what they're investing in these days!" If you don't have the time and money to look after your own investments you shouldn't be investing.

This is why corporations can do anything they want in pursuit of profits. NOBODY cares what the corporations they own are doing, as long as they get money from them. There is no responsibility in the corporate system.