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America Is Not Too Poor for Universal Healthcare

The System Is Simply Not Built to Serve Ordinary People

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Neil Zhu
Jan 19, 2026
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The American healthcare debate is full of fake arguments. People are told universal healthcare is “too expensive,” “too complicated,” or “not realistic.” That story has one purpose: to make the status quo feel inevitable.

But other developed countries already solved this. Not perfectly, but functionally. The United States is not failing a math test. It is refusing to take it.

So the real question is not “Can America do it?” The question is “Who loses money if America does?”

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