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That's not the hard part. It's easy to ban private insurance companies, if that's what you want to do.
The for-profit insurance companies have their place in "Plan Steve": providing coverage for the private facilities with extra hand-holding and amenities, for the people with really big stacks of money to pay for frills.
The hard part is paying for it.
That's why "Plan Steve" has a tax, like a VAT.
All this has been worked out in other countries, over the last 80 years. All we need to do is adopt the best practices.
I don't know why the UK national health program is such a train wreck, but I do note that country had several years of Tory rule, so that may explain the financial distress of the government.
Steve
