Americans want affordable healthcare like the rest of the world!

Healthcare is not an “entitlement.” Healthcare is a human right — and every single developed country in the world except the United States treats it that way. The numbers are not a mystery: • The United States spends more per person on healthcare than any country on Earth — nearly twice the average of other high-income nations — yet Americans die younger, have worse maternal mortality, and carry more medical debt than any peer nation. Source: Commonwealth Fund, OECD • In 2024, over 100 million Americans are carrying medical debt. Source: Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) • 1 in 5 Americans report delaying or skipping necessary medical care because of cost. Source: CDC, 2024 National Health Interview Survey This is not freedom. This is not choice. This is financial punishment for being sick. Other nations — Canada, Germany, the UK, France, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands — all provide universal, affordable care. They do it with mixed models: some single payer, some hybrid public-private — but all guarantee that a cancer diagnosis does not equal personal bankruptcy. America is the only wealthy democracy where becoming sick can destroy your entire economic life. WHY? Why do we accept a system where private equity can buy hospitals and strip them for parts, but ordinary Americans cannot afford insulin? Why do we accept a system where GoFundMe is now one of the largest forms of healthcare finance in the United States? Congress must stop pretending this is complicated. It is not complicated. It is political will. Americans are not asking for special treatment. We are demanding basic dignity. I demand the following: 1. Legislation that makes healthcare affordable for every American — not just those with employer insurance. 2. Limits on predatory pricing, facility fees, and surprise billing loopholes. 3. A pathway toward universal coverage — like every other developed nation already has. America invented Medicare. We know how to do this. We just have to decide to. Stop letting lobbyists write our health policy. Stop forcing Americans into medical bankruptcy while CEOs of insurers collect multi-million-dollar bonuses built on denying care. Congress works for the people — not for Cigna, not for UnitedHealth, not for pharmaceutical shareholders. You have the power to fix this. DO SOMETHING.