Universal health care (UHC) is a system under which "all people have access to the full range of quality health services they need, when and where they need them, without financial hardship," said the World Health Organization . Currently, 72 countries have some form of UHC, according to the World Population Review . The U.S. is not one of those countries. But there has been interest from the American public in pivoting to a UHC system.

The current U.S. health care system is paid for through both public and private sources. These sources include insurance companies, along with government programs like Medicare. Many people would prefer to transition to a single-payer system, which is a form of UHC. In this system, health care is paid for by a single public entity — usually the fed

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