HealthLeaders Media July 1, 2022
A study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) looks at what a single-payer universal healthcare system would like in the COVID-19 climate.
In an alternate universe where a Medicare for All healthcare system was in place in the United States, 338,594 lives and $105.6 billion could have been saved during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study by PNAS.
The U.S., which does not provide universal healthcare as some other nations do, has particularly been hit hard by COVID-19 cases and deaths. PNAS attempted to quantify just how much the absence of a single-payer universal healthcare system has affected the country in past few years.
To determine the hypothetical, the peer reviewed journal calculated the elevated...
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