Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA - The Lancet
▻https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/abstract
Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than US$450 billion annually (based on the value of the US$ in 2017).
[...] This shift to single-payer health care would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households.
Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo.
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