Since the early 2010s, spending per Medicare beneficiary had largely flattened.
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Aric Coffman,
Forbes.com,
23 Sep. 2026
In Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver, a world of human complexity has been flattened deliberately to remove the inconvenient excesses of emotion and feeling.
Facilities that once smoothed a few weeks of timing now sometimes carry a portfolio for months, occasionally across an entire fundraising cycle.
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Peter Doyle,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2026
Attendees posed for selfies with our supermodel cover stars Anok Yai and Alex Consani, got their curls refreshed with Wella Professionals, and had their foreheads smoothed at VIP neuromodulator appointments.
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