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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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.