Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study

Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by pmoriarty on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:36PM (#22387051)

"The net savings would be $450B, but the total cost would still be in the 10s of trillions of dollars"

US health care spending for 2018 alone was $3.65 trillion.

10 years of that sort of spending would result in $36.5 trillion.

So we're already talking tens of trillions of dollars, even if nothing changes.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by ordinaryradical on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:55PM (#22387257)

This is the issue. The assumption that it’s somehow better for this to be handled as a consumer expenditure versus a tax is the actual debate.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by senordevnyc on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:04PM (#22389353)

That’s a very simplistic view. There’s also the question of how those numbers will change over time in each system, and how both care and cost will be distributed.

There’s also the political factor: how would we actually enable this? How do you get it passed? How do you ensure the SC doesn’t strike it down? How do you ensure it’s not just rolled back in 4 years when the presidency flips after the inevitable backlash?

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