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

Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by arebop on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:45PM (#22387148)

$6000/year sounds very low for healthcare in the U.S. When you say "I pay" are you really only counting the employee contribution? For purposes of analyzing aggregate healthcare costs for a whole country, we ought to be using combined employee+employer costs (W2 DD) and not just the (usually small) employee portion highlighted by HR at benefits season.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by beat on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:55PM (#22387258)

I prefer to look at per capita cost, especially when comparing with other nations. It's appalling that we pay twice as much as anyone else, and that almost everyone has better care than we do in terms of outcome.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by mrep on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:58PM (#22387290)

Not op, but you got me curious so I checked my W-2. $8,800 for me and I think mine is top notch (2,600 is my max out of pocket per year limit)

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by arebop on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:10PM (#22387936)

fwiw mine is about $20k with a $5k oop max, for a family of 2 in California. This compares to a worst-case ACA cost of about $65k.

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