Thread by @DrEricDing

Study from Yale—338,000 #COVID19 deaths could have been avoided if we had Medicare-for-All / universal healthcare. That’s a 1/3 of all COVID deaths in the US.

Thanks @mehdirhasan via @MehdiHasanShow

Yale study author: @Alison_Galvani #MedicareForAll

2) The US had the highest death rate from the virus among large wealthy countries and is also the only one among such countries without universal healthcare. It spends almost twice as much on healthcare per capita as the other wealthy countries.
amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j…

3) “The current healthcare system in the US is economically inefficient and leaves millions of Americans without adequate access to medical treatment,” said @Alison_Galvani, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis at the Yale pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

4) The US could have saved more than 338,000 lives and more than $105bn in healthcare costs in the Covid-19 pandemic with a universal healthcare system, says the Yale study by @Alison_Galvani. pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

5) More than 1 million people died in the US from Covid, in part because the country’s “fragmented and inefficient healthcare system” meant uninsured or underinsured people faced financial barriers that delayed diagnosis and exacerbated transmission. amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j…