We're not for white supremacy.

America would have single-payer health care.

In the wake of the assassination of United Health CEO Brian Thompson,

Americans are wondering out loud why we're getting ripped off by giant insurance companies

when every other developed country in the world has health care as a right

and pays an average of about

half of what we do and gets better outcomes. As I point out in the hidden history of American health care,

why sickness bankrupts you and makes others insanely rich and brought up with Joy Reid on her

program last week, America is the only developed country in the world that doesn't recognize health care as a human right.

The only country with more than two-thirds of its population lacking access to affordable health care

and a half million families facing bankruptcy every year because somebody got sick.

The only country in the developed world where over 40% of the population carries $220 billion in medical debt. And the only country in the developed world where over 40% of the population carries $220 billion in medical

debt and the only country in the developed world that has since its founding enslaved and then

legally oppressed oppressed and disenfranchised a large minority of its population because of their

race. These things, along with the United Health's $370 billion in revenue and $32 billion in profit,

are connected.

Roughly 60% of Americans would have had to take out a loan or otherwise borrow or beg for money

to deal with a single unexpected $1,000 expense.

Yet annual family medical co-pays and out-of-pocket deductibles averaged $6,575 in

2003 when the Kaiser Family Foundation did a comprehensive survey of Americans.

This strikes minorities particularly hard, which, it turns out, is not an

accident. The simple fact is that, were it not for slavery, white supremacy, and the legacy of

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