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Aug 12 2022

An Update on Electricity Sources

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
More charts on national and midwest electricity sources and use.
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Aug 12 2022

Gasoline Consumption

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
High gas prices cause personal pain to the vast majority of Americans.
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Aug 11 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 160

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A relatively brief set of research summaries, as the flow of studies seems to be slowing down.
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Aug 10 2022

Productivity, Productivity, Productivity

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
No matter how the administration tries to pretty it up, the economy is in deep crap.
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Aug 09 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 159

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another vaccine-heavy set of research summaries, but a few other nuggets thrown in.
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Aug 08 2022

We Live in a Totalitarian Dictatorship

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Welcome to the totalitarian dictatorship of the USA, where your politics get you prosecuted by the federal government.
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Aug 08 2022

Comparative Hospitalization and Death Rates for Reinfection and Breakthroughs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A first crack at comparative rates of events among the reinfected and breakthrough populations, although DOH data is flawed.
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Aug 08 2022

Age Structure Population Rate Charts, August 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Same old story, cases cluster in the young, hosps and deaths in the old.
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Aug 08 2022

Age Structure Raw Numbers Charts, August 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The epidemic keeps rolling along, largely beneath the surface, just like colds do all the time.
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Aug 07 2022

Self-Insured Acquisitions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple of recent acquistions reflect both the vitality and the difficulty of success for vendors in the self-funded health plan world.
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Aug 06 2022

Jan Malcolm Whines and Lies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 17 Comments
Our Commissioner of Health feels sorry for herself and displays no awareness of the horrific damage she inflicted on Minnesotans during the epidemic.
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Aug 06 2022

Breakthrough Events, August 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough data, with those events contributing to the slight uptick in all events.
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Aug 05 2022

Phony Jobs Reports and Real Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A phoney jobs report can't hide signs of weakness in the economy and provides further steam for inflation prospects.
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Aug 05 2022

Another Brilliant Progressive Policy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
St. Paul leads the way in rent control, achieving the predictable, except to progressives, result of making things worse for low-income persons.
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Aug 04 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 158

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The week winds down, but not the coronavirus research summaries.
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Kevin RocheThe Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

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This is an outstanding report on total global drug spending and trends, with projections out to 2025.  It helps you understand this important area of health care, which does much...
June 1, 2021
The Office of the Actuary annual report on national health spending, covering 2018.
December 7, 2019
2019 Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Report
October 1, 2019
MedPAC 2019 Report to Congress
June 18, 2019

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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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About This Blog

The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com. © Roche Consulting, LLC. Terms of Use.

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