> 50k preventable deaths I love that term. If you prevent death one day, only for them to die the next, is that one preventable death? What if you do that five

> 50k preventable deaths I love that term. If you prevent death one day, only for them to die the next, is that one preventable death? What if you do that five days in a row? Death is not preventable. Extra years of quality life, I can get on board with. Especially because it sounds more manipulable, so you are more wary about it’s meaning. To put 50k/annum in perspective, 3.5 million people died in the USA in 2021. It’s a difficult area to come up with numbers for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045778 > people of poor means Don’t poor people get some free healthcare in the US - although relatively how good that care is compared with other countries I don’t know. I thought it was the middle class that lose everything.