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.