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.
One way or another, however, the CBO expects seven million uninsured Americans to get coverage under ObamaCare in the first year the exchanges are online. Nearly three million of those people will be young and healthy adults, says Dylan Scott at Talking Points Memo.