Michael Sauers
October 12, 2026
A recent study, July 2026, from the Yale School of Public Health’s Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis projects that a national single-payer universal health care system would have major consequences for U.S. health economics and mortality. The study was conducted by a team of experts led by Dr. Alison Galvani and is modeled on the Medicare for All Act. It is an un-peer-reviewed study updating previous peer-reviewed studies published in The Lancet in 2020.
The study indicates a reduction in annual U.S. health expenditures of $1.04 trillion (20%) from an estimated $5.2 trillion down to $4.2 trillion. Additionally, the study indicates a lessened annual mortality rate of 114,174.
These results are realized through savings on negotiated prescription drug costs on a national scale. Additional savings are attained through standardizing and utilizing Medicare-level provider and hospital payments, cutting out private insurance middlemen, billing complexities and prior authorization requirements and identifying and eliminating fraud.
There are approximately 80,000,000 underinsured or not insured people in the U.S. Health care is a right, not a privilege. A fully funded, quality public education system and a healthy citizenry are the two greatest economic development tools that exist. You can take that to the bank!
Read the full analysis via the Yale School of Public Health News or medRxiv.
Affirmation for what Ralph Nader, Bernie Sanders and many other Progressives have been saying for decades.