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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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Aug 04 2022

Reinfection Case Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Re-infection hospitalization and death case rates are a little lower than those for breakthrough cases.
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Aug 03 2022

Health Spending: the Calm Before the Storm

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health care spending growth has been almost nonexistent for a year and a half, due to far lower health care cost inflation compared to general inflation. That is ending.
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Aug 02 2022

Physician Compensation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
An updated report relating to clinician compensation gives you a sense of why US health care costs so much.
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Aug 01 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 157

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Vaccine effectiveness, impacts on children and other nuggets.
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Aug 01 2022

Reinfection Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
DOH finally responds to requests for reinfection data.
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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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This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 2025
Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
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

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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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