The Henne Group

The Henne Group Research organization helping Health and Public Health partners drive systemic change since 1986.

The healthcare system is actively pushing gay and bisexual men out, and the cost of staying away is late-stage diagnoses...
09/30/2026

The healthcare system is actively pushing gay and bisexual men out, and the cost of staying away is late-stage diagnoses, unaddressed mental distress, and preventable harm.

When clinics feel cold, rigid, or implicitly judgmental, avoiding care looks like self-preservation. But navigating around an indifferent system creates severe disparities:

Mental Health Distress: Up to 45% of sexual minority adults experience serious psychological distress (severe anxiety, hopelessness, and depression) compared to 12% of the general population.

The Coping Toll: Due to minority stress and systemic discrimination, gay and bisexual men face 2.7 times higher rates of substance use disorder diagnoses and related hospitalizations.

Substance Disparities: Gay and bisexual individuals are 6.6 times more likely to use amphetamines and 8.6 times more likely to use inhalants than their heterosexual peers.

The Screening Gap: Opaque billing, fear of discrimination, and inadequate provider training drive men out of routine preventive screenings, spiking the risk for late-stage cancer detection.

Fixing these care protocols requires hard evidence directly from the community. Your experience directly shapes more accountable, competent clinical standards.

Perspective matters.Your vantage point can be the exact twist a service, a system, or a practice of care needs to change...
09/24/2026

Perspective matters.

Your vantage point can be the exact twist a service, a system, or a practice of care needs to change.

If you're interested, check out the link on our page for more information on what you can do about Healthcare change today.

For decades, your medical narrative was locked behind closed doors. What finally forced the system to open up?Healthcare...
09/24/2026

For decades, your medical narrative was locked behind closed doors. What finally forced the system to open up?

Healthcare market research.

When researchers gathered the data on 20,000 patients, it shattered the myth that medical records belonged only to hospitals and established your legal right to your own information.

We gather the data that drives systemic change.

👉 Follow The Henne Group to see how real patient research is shifting the balance of power.

When a West Virginia patient needed a targeted liver cancer treatment, his health plan denied the prior authorization fo...
09/22/2026

When a West Virginia patient needed a targeted liver cancer treatment, his health plan denied the prior authorization for months. By the time they finally approved it, his health had declined too far to receive care, and he passed away.

This friction is lethal. 26% of physicians report that prior authorization delays cause serious adverse events, including death (AMA, Prior Auth Survey).

The system is split between two models:
• Payer oversight: Insurers enforce rigid algorithms to limit profit loss.
• Clinical judgment: Physicians demand immediate treatment autonomy without bottlenecks.

The insurer holds the financial authority, but the patient absorbs the complete risk to their lives.

Step up as a Patient Care Specialist. Join our compensated research panels: click the link in our profile to deploy your lived experience and execute a hostile takeover of a system that desperately needs you.

You log into a clinic portal to check in for treatment for a sudden pain, and the earliest opening is four weeks out. So...
09/17/2026

You log into a clinic portal to check in for treatment for a sudden pain, and the earliest opening is four weeks out. So you open a chatbot window and paste your symptoms instead.

Roughly 76% of young adults now use AI for issues meant for a doctor. Algorithms answer in seconds, but they run on next-letter calculations that may or may not correspond to the reality you are experiencing. Primary care is breaking because it forces you to wait a month just to get basic answers, pushing people toward bots that have zero accountability for malpractice.

There's the case to be made that we're entering Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), but if AI is enough to be used for health, does it become irresponsible not to use it? On the other token, if AI is used and provided malpractice and caused harm, does the fault lie with the bot, the user, or the developers of the technology?

Step in as a Care Service Adviser. We are compensating people to share their lived experience so health networks build real, functional care systems.

👉 Paid surveys, interviews, and discussions
👉 Check the link on our page to register for the waiting list

Reference: https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/76-of-gen-z-turn-to-ai-before-seeking-professional-care-aflac-survey-finds #:~:text=Aflac's%20headline%20number%20is%20broader%20than%20it,thins%20out%20the%20baby%20boomer%20comparison%20considerably.

Cold sweats hit when your prescription goes unfilled. You stand at the counter, fluorescent lights buzzing, gripping a u...
09/15/2026

Cold sweats hit when your prescription goes unfilled. You stand at the counter, fluorescent lights buzzing, gripping a useless paper slip as the pharmacist whispers, "Our distributor is on backorder."

Online groups track disappearing vials of PrEP and HRT in real time. According to the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), active drug shortages hit a record 323 therapies in a single quarter, proving this supply choke is systemic.

When these distribution channels snap, the public divides into two opposing camps: some argue that manufacturers intentionally throttle production runs to inflate margins on essential care, while others blame rigid federal quotas and procurement red tape for paralyzing shipments long before medicine reaches local shelves.

Which breakdown is truly driving this crisis? Tell us below.


Reference: https://www.ashp.org/drug-shortages/shortage-resources/drug-shortages-statistics?loginreturnUrl=SSOCheckOnly

The CDC just endorsed Doxy PEP, a massive upgrade for STI prevention.But there's a bottleneck on the ground. When guys a...
09/11/2026

The CDC just endorsed Doxy PEP, a massive upgrade for STI prevention.

But there's a bottleneck on the ground. When guys actually try to access it, they hit clunky intake portals and clinical messaging that treats them like statistics rather than adults making autonomous, informed choices.

The math is simple: when standard institutional delivery doesn't match your daily physical reality, the rollout stalls. A highly effective tool sits unused on a shelf.

We need your input to close this gap. We are financially compensating gay and bisexual men to step in as the legitimate auditors of this rollout. Take ownership of the process, provide them with your views, and help build a competent standard that actually works.

Join the fight now: https://www.thehennegroup.com/joincommunity

You know what you experience. The early mornings, the steep prices, the documentation maze, the misdiagnosis, the real p...
09/10/2026

You know what you experience. The early mornings, the steep prices, the documentation maze, the misdiagnosis, the real physical flares that leave no mark.
All of this is very real, and sometimes they affect whether or not, and how, you get to feeling better.
Only you can voice what you go through.

Look at this pile.Every single piece of paper here represents a doctor's appointment, a lab result, an unreadable prescr...
09/09/2026

Look at this pile.

Every single piece of paper here represents a doctor's appointment, a lab result, an unreadable prescription, and another bill.

I’m tired, man. Deeply, physically tired. I’m tired of sitting on the exam table, explaining my pain, and watching the doctor’s eyes glaze over. I'm tired of the endless trail of specialists who talked over me, dismissed what I was feeling, and sent me home with another useless test and zero actual answers. You sit there, completely vulnerable, telling them exactly where it hurts, and they treat you like an inconvenience. It tears you apart to be neglected like that—to know your body is failing and the people supposed to diagnose you won't even really listen to your voice. It leaves you feeling completely drained and abandoned.

And the brutal truth is, the data maps exactly to what we feel. It's a structural reality:

55% of Black adults report having negative experiences with doctors (a), like having to aggressively speak up just to get basic care, or being treated with less respect.

60% of Black patients literally brace themselves for insults or feel forced to change their appearance just to be treated fairly when they walk into a clinic (b).

Racial minorities are 20% to 30% more likely to be completely misdiagnosed (c).

That translates directly to what you see in front of me: Excessive appointments. Wrong medications. A massive financial drain. More suffering while the medical machine just keeps billing you.

We shouldn't have to just swallow this pain, bury it, or act like it doesn't leave scars. It does. But we also can’t afford to let these institutions keep dictating our lives without challenge. We have to take ownership. If we want better, more accurate systems, we have to leverage our own information and provide the raw, unfiltered data that forces accountability.

That’s why The Henne Group is conducting paid interviews, group discussions, and surveys. We need your actual experiences on the record. Take control of the narrative, get paid for your time, and let's lay out the reality of what's happening so we can dictate better, more sovereign outcomes for ourselves.

Hit the link on our page to join the discussion.

References:
a- Pew Research Center, Black Americans’ views about health disparities, experiences with health care (2022; corrected 2024)
b- KFF, Survey on Racism, Discrimination and Health (2023).
c- KFF Health News reporting the assessment of David Newman-Toker, MD, lead author of a BMJ Quality & Safety study.

Rise above the chaos of complex healthcare regimens! 🌟 You deserve a system that empowers you, not exhausts you. Your he...
09/02/2026

Rise above the chaos of complex healthcare regimens! 🌟 You deserve a system that empowers you, not exhausts you. Your health story is yours to own, and your autonomy is worth fighting for. 💪 At The Henne Group, we believe in the power of collaboration and transparency. Join us in revolutionizing healthcare to prioritize human experiences. Share your triumphs and setbacks to inspire change. Link on page. 💕

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