; and (4) promoting privatization of health services, thereby undermining public system strengthening, health care access, health equity, and financial risk protection; Whereas 98 percent of the annual $1,500,000,000,000 in health spending in aid-eligible low- and middle-income countries is mobilized domestically by these countries themselves, and only 2 percent of this spending comes from overseas development assistance for health; Whereas many of the poorest developing countries presently lack the tax capacity to mobilize the necessary resources to close the universal health coverage financing gap, meaning unnecessary deaths will continue in these settings for the foreseeable future without external donor financing or dramatic increases in domestic tax capacity; Whereas the inability of many of the poorest developing countries to fully close the financing gap for universal health coverage and the provision of numerous other public goods and services is in part due to the intimate economic links between these countries and high-income countries, including the United States, which have been marked throughout history by acts of violence and coercion, including, but not limited to— (1) the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of colonization and slavery; (2) the overthrow of governments and backing of dictatorships in the postcolonial era; (3) the imposition of structural adjustment programs by international financial institutions controlled by high-income countries, which forced austerity, privatization, and liberalization on developing countries, resulting in an estimated loss of $480,000,000,000 per year in potential GDP during the 1980s and 1990s, nearly 5 times more than aid provided during the same period