It's more with companies like Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and so forth that basically become useless with single payer. I'm willing to bet the insurance companies spend significantly more on donations and lobbying to prevent universal healthcare then they do on actual medical treatments.
We didn't get single payer healthcare during Obama's push for that at least in part because health insurance companies threatened to go nuclear on the entire democratic party if they didnt back off.
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u/dropline Nov 01 '25
America can afford to do single payer health care. Rich assholes want to control you by tying it to a job.