You might be surprised how prevalent universal healthcare is in Asia. Source, am Asian.
Russia, India and Bangladesh are on Asia too. Plenty of poor countries on Asia. But, this is a second-handed account since I’m not from Asia, I’m from South America
That aside, my point was largely to poke holes in the US-centric viewpoint that seems to be the default online.
I understand. They really tend to see themselves as the default, despite being fewer than 4% of the world in absolute numbers, it is unnerving sometimes