When employees are of normal weight, that can help an employer save $31.55 per member per month on care for type 2 diabetes and $22.60 per member per month on care for osteoarthritis, according to a new analysis.

One factor that increases spending - a lot - is diabetes.

Competition does lower the cost of the expensive, hard-to-make drugs, according to Tufts University researchers.

Heavy drinkers are men who have more than 14 drinks per week and women who have more than seven drinks per week, according to the CDC.

Insurers and their actuaries may support it, but fewer than 30% of Americans support the idea of tying health insurance premiums to an individual's prior health problems.

About 16.4% of the working-age Americans in a typical state reported in 2023 that they were in fair or poor health, according to the CDC.

An financial analyst recently gave Congress an introduction to why some players dislike the idea.

These are the states with the highest percentages of working-age adults who reported having seen a dentist in the previous 12 months, according to the CDC.