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I'd push back against idiots. It's a little more complicated. It's meticulously cultivated ignorance amongst many people, since that's useful. People with money can help people with power maintain power if they help them make more money. So people with power have an incentive to keep people ignorant about things that threaten the bottom line (often. Some have principles and some see the electorate as a better way to maintain power. Obviously nuance exists)
So it's not that the people who don't support universal healthcare are always unintelligent, or that the leadership is. You're not stupid for not understanding something you've never experienced, and only been told falsehoods about. It's why intelligent people sometimes end up against it, and can jump through pretty significant mental hoops to justify that position: every experience says the belief is correct, and it agrees with what they were taught.
There's a special experience that Americans sometimes get where they'll travel to another country and get sick or injured. Depending on the country, they might be apologetically informed that because they don't pay into the system they'll need to pay full price for the procedure, only to be presented with a bill significantly lower than the fully insured price in the US. Or they just don't get a bill, depending on the country. I've had this happen to two coworkers. One was given a bill for about $200 for a night in the hospital, antivirals, and several units of fluids and electrolytes. The person who presented the bill was adament that there should be a way to bring this down to something more reasonable. In the US that might be a $1000 bill with insurance.
Another had their kid break their arm on vacation, and when they tried to figure out how to pay the doctor just looked confused and asked why he thought they would charge to help a child in medical need. Said it made him realize how backwards our system has made everything, even though he already wanted universal healthcare. Seeing a system that actually put patient care first just felt weird.