Tag: Health Care
The Healthy Skeptic: More misleading health system comparisons
The Commonwealth Fund is run by radical ideologues who believe the government should run everything. It is funded by ideologues, run by ideologues and...
Commentary: America is sick, and RFK Jr. could have the medicine
America is sick.
According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “the CDC says that we are the sickest people on earth. We have the highest chronic...
The Healthy Skeptic: The controversy behind pharmacy benefit managers
Health care is a large and complex sector of the United States' economy. Many companies have sprung up to deliver and manage the delivery...
The Healthy Skeptic: Inflation in health care and health insurance
Recent government releases on price trends suggests that health care and health insurance prices are increasing at a relatively low rate. The Bureau of...
UnitedHealth Group sues Minnesota over ‘jumbo omnibus’ legislation
UnitedHealth Group is suing the Minnesota Department of Human Services over an expansive omnibus bill that the DFL-controlled legislature passed in the final moments...
The Healthy Skeptic: Where health care dollars go
Last week, I summarized part of the most recent annual report on national health spending. In this column, the focus is on where the...
The Healthy Skeptic: The pernicious effects of health care consolidation
For an extended period of time there has been ongoing massive consolidation of health care providers, health plans and everything else in health care....
The Healthy Skeptic: How much are doctors paid?
Physicians and nurses are the primary face of the health system for patients. We all want our physicians to be happy, to not be...
The Healthy Skeptic: It’s time to accept that masks did nothing
One of the most controversial of the “public health” measures during the CV-19 epidemic was the mandated use of face masks.
Supposedly the masks would...
COVID vax–injured executive battles back
(Intellectual Takeout) -- On August 28, 2021, Christine Hoehne’s world turned upside down. Until that pivotal day, Christine had been a high-achieving global benefits...