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.
It would save more and more money the longer it runs too.
Preventative care and annual checkups are huge.
A healthcare system that knows its going to provide care from birth to death, is going to be choke full of long term preventative care and early detections.
They’re not going to ignore a potential issue, because they’re on the hook later for it too.
With insurance tied to employment, they just have to wait till you lose your job and they don’t have to keep paying.