There's a third major cost-saving which is preventative care. I have a family friend who lost his job, lost his insurance and couldn't afford to take his meds

There's a third major cost-saving which is preventative care. I have a family friend who lost his job, lost his insurance and couldn't afford to take his meds which would have prevented the massive stroke that paralyzed him 3 weeks later. This was 10 years ago and his rehabilitation is still ongoing. His wife can't work and is his full-time caretaker. Multiple lives destroyed because we as a society can't get a system together where it makes rational sense to provide this man with the couple cents worth of pills that would have prevented this calamity. It's the same story with every other chronic disease and health care issue - just massive amounts of human suffering that could be avoided.