Over the last two decades, it appears that household income has grown more rapidly in low-income households, but this has had a minor impact on perceptions of income and wealth…
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Hospitals are using their market and lobbying power to force payers to reimburse them at a higher rate than surgi-centers receive.
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An innovative paper using military members examines factors behind geographic variations in health spending.
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A mixed week for the ever-mounting US debt sales.
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Use of prescription drugs can alter the intenstinal micro-biome.
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Venture capital and private equity activity continued to sort of limp along through the first half of 2025.
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An interesting study looks at differences in children diagnosed as "autistic" at different ages.
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Families in Minnesota are getting squeezed as household income drops while costs rise rapidly, more of Little Timmy Walz' great work.
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Light rail in the Twin Cities is an expensive boondoogle that is so unsafe it is driving riders. The cities' solutions are a joke.
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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion. Both companies claim this is all related to AI, which is what everyone says now to get a stock boost.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/qualtrics-buy-healthcare-tech-firm-222943754.htmlOver 300 million Americans get health care coverage from a health plan company.
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Are there really more cases of cancer in young people or just more diagnoses?
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.