While electricity prices nationally have been stable adjusted for inflation, renewable-heavy states have high prices and price growth.
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        Cancer incidence rates are rising for some cancers in young adults, but the same cancers are seeing an increase in incidence among older adults.
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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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