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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[–] Gaja0@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

1T/100k = $10m per life saved, surely people are not millions in medical debt? Am i stupid?

[–] yes_this_time@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm reading that as two different metrics.

It's more cost effective - saving a trillion dollars a year

It's more medically effective - saving 100k lives a year.

You don't divide one by the other, debt isn't related.

[–] Gaja0@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Thanks for explaining and not calling me stupid because I did just misread.