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Jul 20 2022

Life and Death

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The unexpected death of a close friend is a shock to the quotidian routines of life.
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Jul 20 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 14, Overall Population

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Last week's breakthrough report looks like it was some anomaly, as this week returns to the prior trend.
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Jul 20 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 14 Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A population rate look at events by age group.
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Jul 20 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 14 Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
While cases appear to be declining across age groups, no one really knows what is happening anymore.
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Jul 19 2022

Giving Money to People Doesn’t Do Sh*t to Improve Their Lives

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Giving poor people money makes no real difference in their lives, according to a new study, and common sense.
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Jul 19 2022

Environmental Insanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Solar panels are an unreliable, expensive energy source that also have enormous environmental costs.
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Jul 19 2022

Crime in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota, at least the Twin Cities, has become a crime-ridden hellhole, thanks to whacked progressive policies.
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Jul 19 2022

Venture Capital Results for Q2, 2022

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Venture capital activity remains high, but down from last year.
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Jul 17 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 153

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
What could give you greater pleasure on a lovely Sunday morning that reading some CV-19 research summaries?
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Jul 16 2022

Encouraging News on Safety in Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Hospitals have made excellent progress in the last decade in reducing the number of adverse events occurring during treatment.
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Jul 15 2022

Drug Overdoses in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Our jackass of an incompetent Governor and our racist incompetent Attorney General are largely to blame for soaring drug overdose deaths in Minnesota.
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Jul 15 2022

How Minnesota Does Breakthrough Events

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
You can see the lack of rigour in the DOH description of how they identify breakthrough events, which results in a lot of events not being attributed to the vaxed…
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Jul 13 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 152

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A few more current research summaries for your ongoing edification!
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Jul 12 2022

Personal Responsibility Is Important in Medicine

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It doesn't matter how much "help" you give some people; if you don't insist on personal responsibility they won't change behaviors or outcomes.
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Jul 12 2022

Woke Medicine Is All About the Money

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Like a lot of things, supposed "gender-affirming care" is a whacko euphemism for bodily mutiliation and is driven solely by money, lots of money, for doctors.
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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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