[pxeboot]

> If UnitedHealth Group decided to donate every single dollar of its profit to buying Americans more health care, it would only be able to pay for about 9.3% more health care than it’s already paying for.

This is an absolutely massive number. It could easily prevent hundreds of unnecessary deaths per year.

[tptacek]

It's significantly less than the growth in health care spending over the last 5 years. Was health insurance affordable 5 years ago? Then it doesn't matter.