That places a burden on the school systems, on the health system.

The Southwest is what the rest of the country is going to look like in five, 30 years: Hispanic majority, very young population, immigrant population.

The amount of data we collected for this study was massive. There were no surprises, but some things did stand out more strongly than we expected.

My wife's health was most important to me.

I have not gotten the official results from those samples, but the verbal response is there's not a health hazard.

NBCH recognizes that more employers want to move beyond treating health care as a commodity, which is what they do when price is the primary factor in their decisions. Informed employers are looking for resources to help them make use of quality and other performance metrics that are now available. The good news is that improving the quality of health care contributes to cost reduction as well. The eValue8 data is one more tool available to our members in determining the best health plan for their business and employees.