It's tied to life expectancy. They make it sound as if it's a health measure.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society

Employers need to measure the cost of any given health plan two different ways: premiums and productivity. Premiums are simple but until the Quality Dividend Calculator, nobody gave you a number showing you how Plan X was going to affect employee productivity. But employers need to know that number in order to determine which plan really represents the best value. The 'productivity cost' of a bad health plan can be very, very high.

There was a contagion of ordinances. Many small towns expelled the black population or decreed a policy of not allowing any blacks.

I had an Aha! moment. It was October of 2001. I was speaking in my home town in Decatur.

The measure of a nation's commitment to the sanctity of life is reflected in its laws and to the extent those laws honor and defend its most vulnerable citizens.