How Medicare for All Could Become the Leading Cause of Death in America.
Link: https://fee.org/articles/how-medicare-for-all-could-become-the-leading-cause-of-death-in-america/
...The top three leading causes of death in the US are heart disease (614,348), cancer (591,699), and seeking medical treatment. Yes, you read that correctly. According to a 2016 study by Johns Hopkins, medical errors contribute to the deaths of more than 250,000 Americans annually, which places it as the third leading cause of death in the US.
Other estimates have actually placed those numbers even higher at around 440,000 annual deaths because errors by health care providers are not included on death certificates.
For example; hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) contribute to the deaths of nearly 100,000 people annually, leaving almost two million of the total afflicted population requiring treatments that cost over $25 billion a year. These costs could be passed along to taxpayers under Medicare for All, instead of private insurers and employers, as they are now.
This is a real but misleading statistic. A lot of people who directly die from “medical error” were high risks to die anyway, so if the errors had not been made, they might have just been a different death statistic.
Hospital infections are brutal because they hit people who are sick in the hospital.
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