I'm skeptical. It will be cheaper to hire a couple security guards and buy a couple armoured cars then turn away profits.

The reaction was short lived while the insurance companies figured out how to bolster security and return to the usual.

Look at what's happening in California with the proposed wealth tax.

>Page’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, has poured at least $45 million into the Building a Better California Super PAC specifically dedicated to blocking the tax

If it were only the CEOs that were at fault you might have a point. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans benefit from this system and the leaders are accountable to them - the shareholders, employees, and on down the chain.

Congress is our only hope, along with a president who signs reform.

If people voted for universal healthcare we could get it done. The issue is that there’s a sizable, significant voting population that votes against it

You’re right. Two related observations:

1) In the immediate aftermath of Thompson being shot, policies were deliberately briefly softened. Anecdotally, people were helped to live longer by this. It didn’t last long.

2) The response to Thompson’s assassination was the closest I’ve seen to a class consciousness almost forming in the US, as people from across the political divide who had suffered at the hands of the healthcare insurance companies found common ground.

How do you typically react when right wingers make similar comments about what they see as overreaching government?