One thing that I can never get over is the arbitrary value that people put on a human life in this country. For example, when it's the death of a police officer on the job it's considered a big deal. But the death of a roofer on the job is barely even acknowledged.
When a couple people die from a terrorist attack it is headline news. But when tens of thousands of people die from lack of health insurance you get total silence.
The one consistency is wealth and profits. If the deaths involve poor people then no one cares. If the deaths effect someone's ability to make money then stop the presses.

In 2002, a study concluded that "26,000 Americans aged 25 to 64 died in 2006 because they lacked health insurance—more than twice as many as were murdered." From 2000 to 2006 an estimated 162,000 Americans died because of lack of health insurance.
Those are huge numbers, but even these might have been too low. In 2009, a Harvard study estimated nearly 45,000 deaths each year to the lack of health insurance.
That same year a John Hopkins study released another tragic report.

Lack of health insurance may have caused or directly contributed to the deaths of nearly 17,000 children in the United States over the past two decades, a new study has found.
...Fizan Abdullah, the lead author and a pediatric surgeon at Johns Hopkins, said in a press statement about the study, “If you are a child without insurance, if you’re seriously ill and end up in the hospital, you are 60 percent more likely to die than the sick child in the next town who has insurance.”

So every year this country accepts that a thousand children will die every years simply because their parents are too poor to afford health insurance. It's too bad that there's nothing that can be done about it.
Oh wait! We can.

CBO Shows Medicare for All Could Cover Everyone for $650 Billion Less Per Year
The analysis shows that administrative costs under a single-payer healthcare system "will be lower than what even the most rabid Medicare for All supporters have traditionally claimed."

So we could save the lives of tens of thousands of people every year, while saving hundreds of billions of dollars at the same time. That's the very definition of a win-win. Unless you are making profits off the suffering and death of tens of thousands of people.

Zooming out now, there was a study from Columbia University and NIH just a few years later that looked at the human costs of poverty in the U.S.

ScienceDaily reports that recent analysis of these studies found that about 4.5% of all deaths in the United States are caused by poverty-related deficiencies, and that poverty is a contributing factor in still more deaths.

Deaths of all causes surpassed 2.5 million in 2011, the most recent period for which some statistics are available. That means more than 874,000 people died from poverty-related issues in that year (Columbia University). That same year, just fewer than 598,000 deaths were attributed to all types of heart disease. Cancer deaths for 2011 came to fewer than 575,000. Clearly, poverty kills more than either of these top killers (cancer and heart disease).

Yet there are no colored ribbon campaigns or challenge walks against poverty. Once again, nothing can be done about this, except that we can do something about this.
This is the outcome.

Imagine what would happen if we had Medicare For All and made a real effort against poverty.