On June 13, Alyssa s. parpia and others published a paper in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "universal health as pandemics preparedness: the lives and costs that could have been saved during the cvid-19 pandemics". This paper estimated the number of deaths that could have been avoided during the epidemic and the costs that could have been saved if the United States had established a universal health care system.
During the outbreak, 330000 new crowns died in the United States, which could have been avoided—— Is that true?
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2200536119
Previous studies have shown that many preventable deaths are caused by the imperfect medical insurance system in the United States. Most health insurance in the United States is provided by employers - those who are unemployed or do not have health insurance are more likely to get sick and die than those who have health insurance. Recently, researchers analyzed the number of new crowns who died during the U.S. epidemic because of lack of health insurance.
Could have been avoided
First, the researchers used existing data to compare the risk of new coronal death - and the risk of death from other causes - between people with and without health insurance;
Then, the probability of death of people with medical insurance is determined by the demographic characteristics of people without medical insurance;
Next, the data collected will be used to estimate how many people will die in Xinguan due to lack of medical insurance by march2022;
It was found that if there were a universal medical insurance system, about 338000 people could have been saved during the epidemic.
Researchers also calculated the benefits and costs of establishing a universal health care system in the United States by analyzing other data sources. They found that even in the non epidemic period, about $438billion could be saved every year, while $459billion could be saved in 2020!
Therefore, the researchers concluded that investment in the universal health care system can not only save countless lives, but also greatly reduce costs. In addition, this will provide necessary guarantee for the future uncertain epidemic situation.
epilogue
This paper studies the feasibility of establishing a universal medical insurance system from an economic perspective through data analysis. In addition, from a moral point of view, saving one life is better than building a seven level futu. The Buddha said: "it is better to live one person than to be a hundred Buddhist temples." Not to mention tens of thousands of lives? Hope to attract attention and be effectively implemented to reduce the risk of unnecessary death!