Shocking Study Shows How Broken The American Healthcare System Is

In a debate against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Bernie Sanders wasted no time in dismantling Graham’s horrible take on the country's healthcare system and how inefficient and broken the system actually is. Research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA estimates that more than 338,000 people could have been prevented from dying during the pandemic if the country had a universal/singlepayer healthcare system. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.

Read more HERE:

"Americans spend more on health care than people in any other nation. Yet in any given year, the piecemeal nature of the American medical insurance system causes many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs. Not surprisingly, COVID-19 only exacerbated this already dire public health issue, as evidenced by the U.S.’s elevated mortality, compared with that of other high-income countries.

A new study quantifies the severity of the impact of the pandemic on Americans who did not have access to health insurance. According to findings published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, from the pandemic’s beginning until mid-March 2022, universal health care could have saved more than 338,000 lives from COVID-19 alone. The U.S. also could have saved $105.6 billion in health care costs associated with hospitalizations from the disease—on top of the estimated $438 billion that could be saved in a nonpandemic year.

“Health care reform is long overdue in the U.S.,” says the study’s lead author Alison Galvani, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis at the Yale School of Public Health. “Americans are needlessly losing lives and money.”"

***

The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.

Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks▶

SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE☞

📬 Newsletters

If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network:

The Damage Report ▶

Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey ▶

Watchlist with Jayar Jackson ▶

TYT Sports ▶

The Conversation ▶

TYT Investigates ▶

#TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews

220614__TA02BernieVsLindsay_V2