Should the United States adopt a universal healthcare system?

Here is the number that ends the 'best system in the world' talk: the Commonwealth Fund's international comparisons rank the United States worst among high-income nations on maternal mortality, by a wide margin. We spend roughly twice what peer countries spend per person and mothers die at rates that would embarrass a developing nation. This is not about rare diseases or exotic treatments, it is about the most basic thing a health system does, keeping people alive through childbirth, and ours fails at it because access depends on coverage, coverage depends on employment, and employment is not a health plan. A universal system would not fix everything, but it would end the absurdity where your zip code and your job determine whether you survive having a baby. Commonwealth Fund