If the U.S. had a single-payer universal health care system in 2020, nearly 212,000 American lives would have been saved that year, according to a Yale study.
In addition, the country would have saved $105 billion in COVID-19 hospitalization expenses alone.
The research team further calculated that, in a non-pandemic year, some $438 billion would be saved by single-payer universal health care, like Medicare for All.
https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-335000-lives-could-have-been-saved-during-pandemic-if-us-had-universal-health-care/?brid=wjfz6JjXwpZcj6NkgAg8aA
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