71%—Number of Americans who would pay more under single-payer health care, according to an analysis of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 campaign plan by Emory University professor Kenneth Thorpe.
11,600,000—Americans enrolled in Indian Health Service (2.3 million) and Veterans Affairs (9.3 million) coverage who could actually keep their health arrangements. Approximately 300 million more Americans would lose their existing coverage.
1,500,000—Job losses hospitals could have to implement due to payment reductions included in a single-payer system, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Layoffs by physician groups and other sectors of the health care system could add to this total.
2005—The year Canada’s Supreme Court held that Quebec’s prohibition on private health insurance—a provision included in the House and Senate single-payer bills—“interferes with life and security of the person,” because “access to a waiting list is not access to care.”
$17,000—Estimated annual reduction in household income after taxes and health spending under single payer, according to the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Their model demonstrates how single payer will permanently shrink.
$84,700,000,000—Total amount of fraud and improper payments in the existing Medicare and Medicaid programs. Expanding government-run health care to all Americans would massively increase the amount of potential waste, fraud, and abuse.
119,100,000—Number of Americans who would lose their existing coverage under the “moderate” plan to introduce a government-run “public option,” according to a 2009 study by non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group.
1976—Year Congress first imposed restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion. The single-payer bills would eliminate this restriction that has held bipartisan support for more than four decades, allowing for taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand.
1,082,541—Number of Canadian patients waiting an average of five months for health care treatment, according to the Fraser Institute; the number totals nearly 3% of Canada’s entire population.
$32,000,000,000,000—Minimum cost of single-payer legislation over ten years, according to separate estimates by both the liberal Urban Institute and conservative Mercatus Center.