0—-number of days after General Assembly passed the 2009 budget that Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.C.  (BCBSNC) lobbyist Mark Fleming emailed Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand about how to gut a provision in the budget to rein in costs of providing health care for prison inmates. (News & Observer, February 12, 2010)

0—number of days after News & Observer story appeared about role of BCBSNC in gutting law to reign in inmate medical costs that Blue Cross CEO Brad Wilson said the company did not request the change, despite the email from the Blue Cross lobbyist proving the company made the request (News & Observer, February 13, 2010)

20—number of state legislators who signed a letter requesting an investigation of BCBSNC robocalls and other efforts to oppose national health care reform.  (Asheville Citizen-Tines, November 19, 2009)

100,000—estimated number of robocalls paid for by BCBSNC to oppose health care reform in Congress (News & Observer, January 28, 2010)

95,000—amount in dollars BCBSNC was fined for violating the state's law governing robocalls (News & Observer, January 28, 2010)

643,000—amount in dollars of political contributions made by the political action committee of BCBSNC from 2000-2008 (Democracy North Carolina)

117,000—amount given directly by BCBSNC executives over same period in addition to PAC contributions (Ibid)

1—rank of BCBSNC among insurance companies in list of corporations who first produced television ads opposing President Obama's national health care reform efforts (Washington Post, May 18, 2009)

96.8—percentage of individual private health insurance in North Carolina provided by BCBSNC (The Progressive Pulse, June 30, 2009)

72.5—percentage of overall private health insurance market controlled by BCBSNC (Ibid)

12.5—percentage controlled by BCBNC's closest competitor, United Health Care. (Ibid)

0—number of insurance companies other than BCBSNC allowed to bid on contract to administer State Employees Health Plan (The Progressive Pulse, March 18, 2009)

3.99 million—amount in dollars of 2008 pay of BCBSNC CEO Bob Greczyn in 2008 (The Progressive Pulse, March 5, 2009)

759,000—amount in dollars of Greczyn's 2008 pay above pay in 2007. (Ibid)

0—details that BCBSNC will release about retirement package of CEO Bob Greczyn, who retired in 2009. (WRAL.com, February 1, 2010)