New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy forgives $100 mln in medical debt

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6. Pure naked racism is why all Americans don't have universal health coverage

Southern legislators and racists "feared that free and healthy African-Americans would upend the racial hierarchy", the historian Jim Downs writes in his 2012 book, “Sick From Freedom.”

Farm and domestic workers — more than half the nation’s black work force [in he 1930s] were excluded from New Deal policies, including Social Security.

The effort to marginalize the first generation of free black Americans infiltrated nearly every aspect of daily life, including the cost of insurance.

To prevent black people from getting accessible and affordable health care, the conservatives basically said: "No American gets it."

Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/universal-health-care-racism.html

Prudential https://daily.jstor.org/how-insurance-companies-used-bad-science-to-discriminate/