{"id":17981,"date":"2022-06-17T03:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T01:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17981"},"modified":"2022-06-17T03:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T01:59:17","slug":"us-could-have-saved-338000-lives-from-covid-with-universal-healthcare-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17981","title":{"rendered":"US could have saved 338,000 lives from Covid with universal healthcare, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jun\/16\/us-could-have-saved-338000-lives-covid-universal-healthcare-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Report\u2019s author says people died because US healthcare \u2018leaves millions without adequate access to medical treatment\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">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, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/full\/10.1073\/pnas.2200536119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">More than 1 million people died in the US from Covid, in part because the country\u2019s \u201cfragmented and inefficient healthcare system\u201d meant uninsured or underinsured people faced financial barriers that delayed diagnosis and exacerbated transmission, the report states.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sign-in-gate\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">The US had the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/15\/us-public-health-healthcare-covid-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">highest death rate<\/a>\u00a0from the virus among large wealthy countries and is also the only one among such countries\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2019\/jun\/21\/mark-pocan\/universal-health-care-diagnosis-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">without universal healthcare<\/a>. It spends almost twice as much on healthcare per capita as the other wealthy countries, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthsystemtracker.org\/chart-collection\/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries-2\/#GDP%20per%20capita%20and%20health%20consumption%20spending%20per%20capita,%202020%20(U.S.%20dollars,%20PPP%20adjusted)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Kaiser Family Foundation data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Report\u2019s author says people died because US healthcare \u2018leaves millions without adequate access to medical treatment\u2019 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17981\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}