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I'm not defending our shittacular healthcare, but Canada has about 40 million people while the US has about 341 million. Slight difference in scale.
OK, so a singular healthcare provider out of how many? lost ~10% of the total amount it would cost to provide the entire populace of the united states with universal healthcare on par with Canada's - which is already more expensive than it needs to be thanks to US propaganda.
Doing the math, UnitedHealth's net worth before the bullets was very close to enough they could provide universal healthcare to all of the US alone.
Well let's look at per capita costs then. Canada's universal healthcare has a cost of around $1500 per person and covers everyone.
Medicare/Medicaid covers ~60 million Americans and costs 820 billion a year for a cost of $13600 per covered person or a total of $2440 per capita in taxes. There is no rational reason why 820 billion can't provide universal healthcare to every American with change to spare.
Proceeds to defend thing you're "not defending"...
This is also referencing only one health insurance company whereas under single-payer healthcare there would be many made irrelevant, I think the comparison is made just to add that sort of perspective