After pressure from Democrats, consulting firm McKinsey released a statement Monday, along with the full questionnaire about its now-controversial survey predicting a significant drop of ESI coverage due to health reform.

A new Avalere study gives Democrats more ammunition in their claims the McKinsey survey, which reported a third of employers will be dropping health coverage soon because of Obamacare, is an “outlier.”

Baucus isn’t the only one. Now, key House Democrats also are pushing McKinsey & Company to release the methodology behind their now-controversial survey regarding employers’ plans to drop health care due to Obamacare.

A four percent annual increase in the average claim size is responsible for the growth of long-term care liability costs, according to a study on 2011 long-term general and professional liability actuarial analysis by the Aon Corporation and the American Health Care Association.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is pushing McKinsey & Company to release the methodology behind the firm's survey that found 30 percent of employers will stop offering health insurance after 2014.

Another day, another wave of controversy over the McKinsey report.

The U.S. market for electronic health records is expected to reach about $6 billion by 2015, up from about $2.2 billion in 2009, according to a report from research and consulting firm MarketsandMarkets.

U.S. physicians continue to sell their private practices and look for work with health care systems, according to a new Accenture survey. By 2013, less than one-third of physicians are expected to remain truly independent.