A new study has found that Medicare for All would save over 100,000 lives in the U.S. per year while also reducing Americans’ health care spending by more than $1 trillion annually. Yale University and University of Maryland researchers have estimated that the universal single payer health care system introduced in the Medicare for All Act would prevent 114,000 deaths per year.

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, but then 14% of the GDP wouldn't be a source of wealth (though their ownership of Private Healthcare and Healthcare Insurance ) for the tiny slice of society who are members of the Asset Owner class.

Surelly 114 thousand more dead Americans every year is a price worth paying to allow the fatcats to take a slice of a $3.4 trillion cake that's twice as large as it would otherwise need to be (Healthcare as percentage of GDP in countries with universal healthcare is only around 7-8%)