Which is... pretty odd, as one of the three dominant styles of universal health care today was originated by and is named after _Otto van Bismarck_, who you'd struggle to consider a leftist.
I don't get why climate change is a "leftist" issue for those people, and yet..
And to be fully fair, von Bismarck only did it to preempt social democrats' talking points and popularity.
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/12/otto-von-bismarck-germany-soc...
and from a US-centerish perspective here
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/bismarck-tried-end-so...