A new study has found that Medicare for All would save over 100,000 lives in the U.S. per year while also reducing Americans’ health care spending by more than $1 trillion annually. Yale University and University of Maryland researchers have estimated that the universal single payer health care system introduced in the Medicare for All Act would prevent 114,000 deaths per year.
Maybe some of that trillion in savings could be put towards constructing medical facilities and training healthcare professionals?
More medical professionals would be needed to work. And more suppliers would be required. Either would need a cultural revolution and years to change, even with the money flowing.
It’s similar to throwing money at industries that were outsourced. It’s not possible because of a lack of prerequisites that cannot be willed into existence without years or decades of effort. Shipbuilding comes to mind.
The fact that nobody is seriously trying to do the prep work for such a monumental work in medical shows two things: nobody seriously expects Medicare for all; and the USA is fundamentally incapable of change.