skepticism

In a place like Wichita, where Medicare Advantage enrollment has finally reached 40%, it’s kind of a mixed bag of rural health issues and skepticism about insurance companies in general.

You could smell the skepticism: best case scenario, this Indiana team would be last year’s team.

To be sure, there was also skepticism regarding the use of apps on the small screens of smartphones, and we all know how that turned out.

It often arrives dressed in intellectual respectability framed as concern, skepticism or “just asking questions.”

Now, as parents and grandparents, they are passing along a skepticism toward higher education and its hefty price tag, part of the broader unraveling of America’s “college for all” ideology.