That’s what lobbyists want us to believe, but it isn’t true. The reason healthcare feels “too complicated” here is because it’s been deliberately designed that way. Corporations and lobbyists profit from keeping the system fragmented, overregulated, and confusing, with Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and endless billing codes that protect profits, not patients.
Here’s the truth: every other modern country has figured this out. Canada, France, Japan, and Germany all cover everyone at about half the cost we spend in the U.S.. and they get better outcomes. That means people live longer (80–84 years vs. 76 in the U.S.), have safer births (lower infant and maternal mortality), face fewer preventable deaths from treatable conditions, and don’t go bankrupt over medical bills. Our own Medicare program already proves we can run a universal system here at home.
The H.E.A.L. Act doesn’t take away Medicare or Medicaid, it protects them and fills in the missing pieces like dental, vision, hearing, and mental health. By eliminating premiums and deductibles, it frees up money for families on fixed incomes and even makes food assistance go further, because healthcare won’t eat up people’s checks.
If other countries can do it, so can we. The only reason we haven’t is because lobbyists keep telling us it’s impossible. The H.E.A.L. Act is how we stop treating healthcare as a profit machine and finally make it a right.
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