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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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Jul 12 2022

A Couple More Quick Climate Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Long-term studies of earth's climate reveal temperature shifts far more dramatic than anything which is or isn't occurring today.
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Jul 12 2022

Age Structure Charts, Population Rates, July 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A population rate look at epidemic events by age group. Note that the age groups now have to mirror the vax groups used by DOH.
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Jul 12 2022

Age Structure Charts, Raw Numbers, July 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The age structure of the epidemic by raw numbers of events.
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Jul 12 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, July 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another big picture look at the epidemic. No dramatic moves.
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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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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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