A new study published this month in the journal PNAS claims that the US could have saved at least 212,000 lives lost to Covid-19 in 2020 alone if it had a single-payer healthcare system.
The report lambastes the shortcomings in the US’ for-profit healthcare system, arguing that multiple factors in a single-payer system would have reduced fatalities in the first year of the pandemic. Since the onset of the pandemic, the US has had more deaths per capita than its economic peers. It also has had the most recorded total deaths and cases in the world.
