Commotio cordis occurs mostly in boys and young men (average age 15), usually during sports, most frequently baseball, often despite a chest protector. It is usually caused by a projectile, but can also be caused by the blow of an elbow or other body part.
The number of uninsured Americans declined by 8.8 million in 2014, the first year the major insurance reforms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took effect, according to new federal survey of 98,000 adults released by the U.S. Census Bureau today.
Non-citizens are almost three times as likely to be uninsured as are native US citizens. Over 63 percent of non-citizens went without insurance in 2015, compared to 10 percent of US native citizens and 26.2 percent of naturalized citizens. In Texas, 38 percent of the uninsured are non-citizens.