Everyone deserves affordable healthcare

Healthcare is not an “entitlement.” Healthcare is a human right. Every developed nation on Earth understands this — except the United States. That is not leadership. That is not freedom. That is failure. The facts are not debatable: • The United States spends more per person on healthcare than any country in the world — nearly twice the average of other wealthy nations — yet Americans die younger, suffer far higher maternal mortality, and drown in medical debt. • Over 100 million Americans are currently burdened with medical debt. • One in five Americans delay or skip necessary medical care because they cannot afford it. This is not a healthcare system. This is financial punishment for getting sick. Cancer should not mean bankruptcy. Diabetes should not mean rationing insulin. Pregnancy should not be a life-threatening economic gamble. And yet in the richest country on Earth, it is. Canada. Germany. The UK. France. Japan. Australia. The Netherlands. Every one of them guarantees universal, affordable healthcare. Some use single-payer systems. Some use public-private models. All of them agree on one basic principle: Illness should not destroy a person’s life. America stands alone among wealthy democracies in allowing sickness to routinely result in financial ruin. So answer this: Why is private equity allowed to buy hospitals, gut them for profit, and walk away — while Americans can’t afford insulin? Why has GoFundMe become one of the largest healthcare “financing” systems in the United States? Why are insurance executives handed multi-million-dollar bonuses for denying care? Stop pretending this is complicated. It is not. This is a choice — a deliberate decision to protect corporate profits over human lives. Americans are not asking for luxury. We are demanding basic dignity. I demand that Congress act — now: 1. Pass legislation that makes healthcare affordable for every American, not just those lucky enough to have employer-provided insurance. 2. End predatory pricing, abusive facility fees, and surprise billing once and for all. 3. Create a real, enforceable pathway to universal coverage — like every other developed nation already has. America invented Medicare. We know how to do this. What we lack is not knowledge. What we lack is political courage. Stop letting lobbyists write healthcare policy. Stop forcing Americans into medical bankruptcy. Stop serving insurance conglomerates and pharmaceutical shareholders at the expense of human lives. Congress works for the people — not Cigna, not UnitedHealth, not Wall Street. You have the power to fix this. Do it.