If people want some specific changes, such as real, well-provided single-payer healthcare without the involvement of for-profit insurance companies, and univers

If people want some specific changes, such as real, well-provided single-payer healthcare without the involvement of for-profit insurance companies, and universal prescription coverage, then they need to follow the examples of Roman women: mass, nonviolent action that targets the pocketbooks of the billionaires and the gold-bar-taking crooked politicians in a sustained manner. Medicare is incomplete, complex, confusing, expensive to the patient, and outsources much of itself to for-profit insurance companies. And Medicaid is terrible, offering only sometimes temporary and limited coverage for very poor people during emergencies and minimal care because few doctors accept it.