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I know its be a sour pill to swallow for the investors. I don't care if that "industry" dies. They didn't care about the all the people they sacrificed for the sake of the investors, why should actual people give a shit about them?
Be practicable. Yes, the insurance industry is caustic to society. But, if a legislator took on the cause of killing such a profitable industry in post Citizens United world, the industry will drop a banker's truck on them to ensure that their reelection campaign won't go through. They did that when the ACA was first being considered, didn't give up after a watered down version was passed, and it's a hill the Republican party is still willing to die on years later because they're supported by the insurance industry.
Edit: We may not like having to live in a society where money equals speech, but that’s where we are today since the Supreme Court has made the rich into first class citizens. So, operating in today’s society, we second-class citizens need to basically bribe the first-class citizenry that is the insurance industry into supporting universal health insurance by society’s relieving the insurance industry from having to pay their contractual obligations, which would increase their profit margin, while simultaneously providing it with a new avenue to remain in business.
What's the old Kennedy quote? "We do it not because it is easy but because it is hard", same thing applies here. Worst case scenario ya start doing good old vandalism on the insurance infrastructure, also I'm pretty fucken sure most businesses that aren't the insurance industry fucken hate the insurance industry probably wouldn't be that hard to get the ball rolling on at minimum dissolving and outlawing health insurance companies.
I edited my previous post to include some text, but I am going to add it as a reply here:
Or we can start outlawing them on the state and local level effectively knocking out their feet from under them. You are assuming that they have infinite resources but being liked is a resource and everyone fucking hates them, while it'll definitely be uphill battle the problem thus far has been that it's a singular approach. Also if the supreme court says no you can't do that, fuckem they will make their decision now enforce it.
You wish to play their stupid little game, I wish to burn everything they love and care about to cinders. If they continue to cause issues regardless just start killing them and burning things, not like society will lose anything.
Until more people start doing Luigi stuff, this is t.he practical step forward.
Also, if there were many more Luigis, do you think the rich wouldn't get their government goons to respond? Of course they would, and look at how ICE is acting. Yes, guillotines are going to be the ultimate solution, but not today. I don't know about you, but I'm not willing to lose what little family I have left to a drone strike or a goon squad. So, the next generation can start chopping heads.
You think I want to go after the heads of these shitheels, no I wish to burn every scrap of infrastructure to the ground if need be. We can start with their office building then move on from there its rather hard to stop someone from breaking into a server building and setting a diesel fire. Eventually people will stop wanting to work for them and their insurance primiums will ironically go up and up and up.