MissConstrue<p>Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn’t define <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That’s it. We’re the only one left.</p><p>Progressives have been fighting for universal healthcare for well over a century. But <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> and <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> have always come first in the American model. </p><p>It started with the leader of <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Prudential" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prudential</span></a> saying that if we didn’t have healthcare for all, Black people would die and solve the”solve the race problem”, and continues with CEOs making billions by letting Americans die. </p><p><a href="https://mefi.social/tags/Medicare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare</span></a> For All would save American families thousands every year immediately and do away with the 500,000+ annual bankruptcies in this country that happen only because somebody in the family got sick. But it would kill the billions every week in profits of the half-dozen corporate giants that dominate the health insurance industry.</p><p><a href="https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/heath-insurance/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rawstory.com/raw-investigates/</span><span class="invisible">heath-insurance/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mefi.social/tags/eattherich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eattherich</span></a></p>