More great news for you! Scientific studies are easy to find, because they get peer-reviewed and published! So awesome, right?

But I misremembered, the number was 45,000, not 55,000. You have my deepest apologies!

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-finds-45000-deaths-annually-linked-to-lack-of-health-coverage/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhpr1503614?af=R&rss=currentIssue&#t=article

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