Here’s that Yale study on Medicare for All Bernie Sanders keeps mentioning

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a nurses convention rally at Yerba Buena Gardens on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in San Francisco, Calif. Sanders promoted his Medicare for All 2017 plan. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a nurses convention rally at Yerba Buena Gardens on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, in San Francisco, Calif. Sanders promoted his Medicare for All 2017 plan. Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle Image 1 of / 9 Caption Close Here’s that Yale study on Medicare for All Bernie Sanders keeps mentioning 1 / 9 Back to Gallery

During a Tuesday debate Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders once again mentioned a Yale University study as evidence that his Medicare for All plan would save $450 billion.

The study was authored by Alison Galvani, of the Yale School of Public Health’s Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis.

Sanders has referenced the study repeatedly since it was published earlier this month. In Las Vegas, last week, Sanders said “Just the other day a major study came out from Yale epidemiologist in Lancet, one of the leading medical publications in the world.”

Medicare for All “would save $450 billion a year because we are eliminating the absurdity of thousands of separate plans that require hundreds of billions of dollars a year in administration and, by the way, ending the $100 billion a year in profiteering for the drug companies and the insurance companies,” Sanders said.

Galvani told the Yale Daily News that Sanders is accurately representing the study’s conclusions. Sanders said that Medicare for all would save money by “eliminating the absurdity of thousands of separate plans.”

“That’s absolutely accurate,” Galvani said.

“Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system is likely to lead to a 13 percent savings in national health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than $450 billion annually,” the study said. “The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is incurred by employers and households paying for health-care premiums combined with existing government allocations.”