"Getting rid of them would be extremely hard, of course, given how well entrenched they are thanks to lobbying and regulatory capture." I always go back to whe

"Getting rid of them would be extremely hard, of course, given how well entrenched they are thanks to lobbying and regulatory capture." I always go back to when the Affordable Care Act was passed. At the time the amount of money being spent and the future money promised was enough for the federal government to buy every public health insurance company on the open market. If that decision had been made the argument for going to single payer, universal healthcare would have been over. Yes, it would have been a rough transition, but at the time elapsed between now and then would have moved the USA into the rest of the world when it comes to healthcare.