It’s one of our favorite weeks of the year—the first week of the new baseball season! Everybody started fresh this week at 0-0 with visions of the postseason. The 162-game regular season also puts into perspective the long-haul campaign season ahead of us in the 2016 elections as candidates campaign to win each day from now until November 8.

UHC’s chief says that “the employer-based system is alive and well” in a new front-page piece on the New York Times.

A JAMA study has found that the price of insulin has tripled over the last decade, from $4.34 per milliliter in 2002 to $12.92 in 2013, pushing yearly total costs to $736.09 per person.

A new report looks into how consumers consider health insurance plans on the marketplaces.

UHC is launching a new health plan geared towards improving primary care, with free unlimited doctor’s visits and coaching to help with living a healthy lifestyle.

Following up with our read last week about how only 3% of us live healthy lifestyles, a report this week finds that 70% of Americans exhibit at least one of five unhealthy behaviors: smoking, excessive drinking, insufficient sleep, physical inactivity and obesity, and that 25 million Americans exhibit at least three.

Americans really like looking into how much colonoscopies cost. Why not other healthcare services?

As many as 10 million Americans could be eligible for federal healthcare programs, but the IRS isn’t cluing them in.

The rare disease of the week goes to hyperparathyroidism, which may have contributed to Garry Shandling’s death last month.

A recent report on the health benefits of chocolate milk has been pulled after finding a conflict of interest with its funders—a chocolate milk brand that purports to source its milk from super cows.

Consider this the next time you’re thinking about picking up a Palak Paneer from Trader Joe’s.

This doc changed his mind about for-profit healthcare.

Spain may be doing away with the afternoon siesta.

We remind you that correlation is not necessarily causation, but the data nerd in us couldn’t help but be amused by this website.