For-profit medical insurance has priced itself out of the marketplace and enriched shareholders. They’ve killed the goose that laid the golden egg and expect a place at the table — sorry sunzabastards, in my book.

I’m still waiting for the US to declare that medical care is a basic human right, free of political and economic constraints. Other countries have done that, and gone on to universal coverage.

Alas, I won’t live to see the defeat of the corporatocracy. But between now and then, I intend to work for wresting medical and health decisions away from the corrupt health insurance industry. That’s why I sold my Aetna stock…