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Sixty-one percent of long-haul truckers report having two or more of the following risk factors: hypertension, obesity, smoking, high cholesterol, no physical activity, 6 or fewer hours of sleep per 24-hr period. Making things worse, thirty-eight percent of truck drivers are not covered by health insurance or a health care plan. [6]
In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the state of New York, many of which would subsequently fail. Between 1870 and 1872, 33 US life insurance companies failed, in part fueled by bad practices and incidents such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 3,800 property-liability and 2,270 life insurance companies were operating in ...
Pickup truck racing events in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series have been held at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan in 1999 and 2020, and is scheduled to return to the track in 2025. The race was last held as the Henry Ford Health System 200.
The final rule required truck drivers who use the "34-hour restart" provision to maximize their weekly work hours to limit the restart to once a week and to include in the restart period at least two nights off duty from 1:00 to 5:00 a.m., when one's 24-hour body clock supposedly needs and benefits from sleep the most. [22]
In non-expansion states, people below the poverty level get no help, because private insurance subsidies are available only to people who earn more than that. If the Affordable Care Act were repealed, the national uninsured rate would rise, a trend that would hit hardest in those states that had more uninsured before the law.
In addition to medical expense insurance, "health insurance" may also refer to insurance covering disability or long-term nursing or custodial care needs. Different health insurance provides different levels of financial protection and the scope of coverage can vary widely, with more than 40% of insured individuals reporting that their plans do ...
Health insurance coverage is provided by several public and private sources in the United States. Analyzing these statistics is challenging due to multiple survey methods [12] and persons with multiple sources of insurance, such as those with coverage under both an employer plan and Medicaid.
Rick Steves says prostate surgery has given him an unexpected insight.. Steves, author of more than 100 travel guides and host of the long-running PBS Series Rick Steves' Europe, was diagnosed ...