Exactly. Same as legally mandated car insurance. Everyone needs auto insurance coverage in case of an emergency...which can incur enormous costs in personal injuries and resulting medical care. Everyone shares the cost of auto insurance. Only a few have to use it at any one time. Therefore everyone can afford it since the cost gets spread around through the whole population.

And that's exactly how it should work with national health insurance...and does, in most places. But not the USA.

I'd rather pay a small amount of money each year in taxes than suddenly be owing someone a million dollars that I don't have and can't possibly get!

Why do so many Americans not get this? I'd guess, because they've been scared by false information and just don't understand it.