+Numbers | June 8, 2011

30%

Percentage of 1,300 employers surveyed who currently offer health benefits and said they would "definitely or probably" drop their employer-sponsored insurance policies in favor of subsidized-exchange policies in 2014, when many of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act will go into effect. [via McKinsey Quarterly]

+Quotes | February 2, 2011

“At a time when there is virtually unanimous agreement that health care reform is needed…it is hard to…strike down a statute titled 'The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.'”

—ROGER VINSON, U.S. District Judge, on the difficulty of his Jan. 31 decision to rule the Obama administration's health care law unconstitutional for requiring Americans to purchase health insurance [via The Southeast Sun]

+Numbers | November 9, 2010

138,500,000

The recent survey of more than 800 members of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) found that an insurance agent helps his or her clients resolve an average of 223 health insurance claims per year. Agents make an average 3.1 calls to health insurance companies for each claim. Assuming the 800 polled [...]

+Childhood | August 4, 2009

Why Are More Kids Getting Hurt in Gym Class?

By TIME.com

Between 1997 and 2007, the annual number of gym class injuries grew by 150%, according to a study published in this week’s edition of the journal Pediatrics. In 1997, there were an average 4.39 trips to the emergency room per every 10,000 kids; a decade later, that was up to 10.9 visits. “This is a [...]

+Health Reform | August 4, 2009

Does Prevention Really Cut Health-Care Costs?

By Laura Blue

If you’ve been trying to follow the debate over U.S. health-care reform, you might be confused about whether Obama’s plan is really going to cut costs, how much it will save, and how on earth there can be so much debate over what seems like accounting. At the heart of this issue, however, is the question of [...]