> Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared

> Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68 000 lives and 1·73 million life-years every year compared with the status quo. That this has been allowed to go on in a land of plenty is an utter disgrace that I can only hope will not go down well in the pages of history.