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Corporations are not 'evil', they are amoral. They don't have the same aspirations for America that you and I do. A corporation does not want democracy. It does not want free markets, it wants profits. Corporations are externalizing machines. They're constantly figuring out ways to get somebody else to pay their costs of production. That's their nature.
They should NOT be allowed to run our health care...
Corporations are a shell. It is the people running that give it a moral or immoral leaning. A corporation WANTS a democratic REPUBLIC. It is the best environment to pursue a profit. A corporation wants a free market when they are starting to compete, maybe not so much when they produce a new product or are well established. Corporations seek to reduce production costs, but not necessarily by passing costs on to a third party. Of course, reductions in production costs can be passed on to consumers in many cases.
More healthcare producers can lower costs. Removing innovation and research by these corporations will slow the progress of medicine. In this regard corporations have been moral. Removing the profit incentive, which seems to be your goal, has negative consequences too.
A corporation wants profits...period. AND, if the corporation does anything that lowers profits, they can be sued by their shareholders.
Hmmm...and what about nonprofit corporations?
I own an S corporation. I want my labor paid. I also want the company to continue beyond the short term, so I am willing to reduce profits to do that. What about green companies? They in it purely for the profit?