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.
That $1 trillion wouldn’t be saved, it would just be missing in some billionaires’ pockets. Which is exactly why this is opposed. What’s 100,000 lives if you could instead make a couple of ultra rich dudes even richer?