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.
We have 40 million people who are uninsured in the United States. That equals the entire country of Canada, the number of uninsured in the United States. What the healthcare debate is about is how to take care of those people. We are a nation about self. We are not about others all that much. We are debating between freedom and government oversight.