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We all deserve a healthcare system that works for all of us. I want you to know that in the U.S. we pay more for healthcare with worse outcomes than our peer industrialized countries. Our maternal mortality rate is 17 deaths/100,000 live births while France is at 7, Germany is at 4, and Japan is at 3. The same is true for infant mortality (deaths/1000 live births), France is at 3, Germany is at 3, and Japan is at 2 while we lose 6. Regarding avoidable deaths - we lose 336 people for every 100,000 people in the U.S. and France, Germany, and Japan lose between 134 and 195. We pay, in real dollars, 2 to 3 times what those countries pay for healthcare. None of those systems are socialized medicine they are all a combination of public and private insurance paying private providers. That’s what we need here. They each have a system that provides health insurance for their entire populations, unlike here. Healthcare is a basic part of our infrastructure and should be treated that way. We need a public insurance trust that pays private providers. That isn’t socialized anything -it is public insurance, like disability insurance, or earthquake coverage or flood insurance. I need you to do your part and make sure that we enact Universal Healthcare like HR 3069. We all deserve to be able to go to the doctor and not go broke. P.S. According to the Congressional Budget Office 2020 report (updated to 2025 dollars) we would save, as a country $750 billion every year. The data above was take from the World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/topic/8) and the OECD (https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2023/11/health-at-a-glance-2023_e04f8239/full-report/avoidable-mortality-preventable-and-treatable_e7407977.html) Here is a Commonwealth Fund report comparing U.S. healthcare to other countries (2024) as reference for you, https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/sep/mirror-mirror-2024