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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

progressoid

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5. This part is interesting:

Reply to HuckleB (Original post)

Fri Sep 8, 2017, 03:29 PM

Sep 2017

And less-affluent people spend a higher proportion of their income on these treatments. “While the mean per user out-of-pocket expenditure for complementary health approaches was $435 for persons with family incomes less than $25,000, those with family incomes of $100,000 or more had mean per user expenditures of $590,” the team wrote.

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