The most common belief is that universal health care is a 'hand out' to others taken from their own pockets.
Can we not apply the same thinking here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OECD_health_expenditure_p...
We spend about the same as other OECD countries in public healthcare funding, plus we spend a bunch more privately, for an overall healthcare spend that's the highest per-capita in the world, and outcomes that aren't as good.