Not specifically; the US is not the only country in the world without UH - and UH is not the same thing as single-payer nor free-at-the-point-of-need. Emphasis

Not specifically; the US is not the only country in the world without UH - and UH is not the same thing as single-payer nor free-at-the-point-of-need. Emphasis on “variety of reasons” - which includes the US - the tragedy is that those “variety of reasons” are the most asinine reasons compared to, say, countries that simply haven’t reached the necessary level of civil stability and infrastructure development to support UH.