Tag: health
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: 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: Members’ perceptions of their health plans
The Employee Benefits Research Institute does what its name suggests -- tracks data and trends in employer-offered health benefits. It recently released a brief...
The Healthy Skeptic: An assessment of Minnesota’s health
Every year Minnesota’s Department of Health produces a report on the state’s health. Minnesota has a number of significant health issues — a heavily...
The Healthy Skeptic: Innovation in medicine and its costs
Our health is important to all of us and having a disease or condition requiring treatment is anxiety provoking, for both health and financial...
Minnesota lawsuit forces company to accept blood donations from transgender people
The recently announced outcome of a Minnesota lawsuit forces one of the nation's largest plasma companies to accept blood from transgender donors who were...
A new study finds lockdowns 10 times more costly to public...
Proponents of lockdowns have continuously touted lockdowns as the way to curb the virus. When faced with the obvious economic damage caused by the...
Local Fitness Centers Blast Minnesota Governor Walz
"Sweat Minnesota," a coalition of gym owners and personal trainers, took out a full page advertisement in the Star Tribune, Sunday, to blast Governor...
Rep. Hagedorn Feeling “Great” During Cancer Battle
Rep. Hagedorn was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in 2019, but recently reported: “I’m feeling great and working hard.”
Representing the 1st district of...