These are the most important charts I periodically post--this is what Tim Walz and Jan Malcolm did to Minnesotans--killed them with the terror campaign.
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Don't read the blog if you aren't interested in a thoughtful discussion of the science and the data relating to the epidemic and don't comment if you have no intellectual…
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We all need to step up and insist that appropriate action be taken to protect Americans from the ruination of our economy.
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The destruction of the economy has real consequences for people's lives, and those consequences are far worse than anything coronavirus could do.
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We all need to think about whether the extreme damage that is being done to people's lives by the reaction to the coronavirus isn't worse than the disease itself.
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Prior authorization may not be the best way to do it, but we need some oversight of the care doctors deliver.
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A questionable study on Medicare Advantage members' access to cancer surgeries at expensive, supposedly high quality, centers.
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Several more days, feels like years, of trudging through the dreck that is the Star Tribune.
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Anti-depressants are grossly over-prescribed and don't work for mild depression.
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Just a reminder that you can find Healthy Skeptic podcasts on pretty much all the usual outlets, I encourage you to take a listen.
Workers' compensation claims display the wide variation in doctor choices of how to treat, driven by the desire to make more money.
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Reviews of the evidence for effectiveness of flu vaccines are dated. And effectiveness appears to be fairly limited.
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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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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.