Not only is universal healthcare more moral, it has been demonstrated as more economically efficient many times over. You only need to start by comparing the per-capita costs paid for healthcare in the US vs every other modern nation in the world. The US pays more than double the average of the other nations and we get much less performance for it. There are no modern nations that pay as much as the US in absolute terms, nor as high a percentage of our GDP.
The other nation's systems have mixes of full nationalized care to administrative combinations of private insurance, so there is some leeway there. But all of them contain public controls on the cost of drugs and procedures. And that demonstrably works with both better prices, and better outcomes in total measures like life expectancy.
Edit: Btw the PBS article is from 2012, with data up to 2010. In later years, US life expectancy has had years which it has dropped, and even when growing, it lags the nations modern peers (while approaching nations such a Mexico..). There are some forces there that aren't all healthcare, but healthcare is central to life expectancy...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/health-costs-how-the-us-...
The other nation's systems have mixes of full nationalized care to administrative combinations of private insurance, so there is some leeway there. But all of them contain public controls on the cost of drugs and procedures. And that demonstrably works with both better prices, and better outcomes in total measures like life expectancy.
Edit: Btw the PBS article is from 2012, with data up to 2010. In later years, US life expectancy has had years which it has dropped, and even when growing, it lags the nations modern peers (while approaching nations such a Mexico..). There are some forces there that aren't all healthcare, but healthcare is central to life expectancy...
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/22/us-life-expectancy-is-low-an...