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Universal Healthcare & COVID

2022-06-14 02:16:04.590306+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

PNAS Research Article | Economic Sciences | Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives and costs that could have been saved during the COVID-19 pandemic

To evaluate the repercussions of incomplete insurance coverage in 2020, we calculated the elevated mortality attributable to the loss of employer-sponsored insurance and to background rates of uninsurance, summing with the increased COVID-19 mortality due to low insurance coverage. Incorporating the demography of the uninsured with age-specific COVID-19 and nonpandemic mortality, we estimated that a single-payer universal healthcare system would have saved about 212,000 lives in 2020 alone. We also calculated that US$105.6 billion of medical expenses associated with COVID-19 hospitalization could have been averted by a single-payer universal healthcare system over the course of the pandemic. These economic benefits are in addition to US$438 billion expected to be saved by single-payer universal healthcare during a nonpandemic year.

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2200536119

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