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Apr 16 2023

People Just Make Sh*t Up and It Gets Believed by Whacked Progressives

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Florida State University professor just makes up data to try to prove racism. He got caught but most don't.
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Apr 15 2023

An Osteoarthritis Pain Trial Takes a Knee

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An intervention to to reduce knee pain in overweight osteoarthritis patients doesn't lower pain by much.
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Apr 13 2023

Physician Practice Patterns

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Physician practice patterns vary, and those variations can affect both spending and quality outcomes.
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Apr 12 2023

A Weighty Study Pounds Sand

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A remotely-delivered behavior intervention does zipola to meaningfully reduce body weight or improve health status.
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Apr 11 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 204

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A potpourri of the ongoing but somewhat diminishing tide of CV-19 research.
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Apr 10 2023

Medical Spending on the Rise

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
I continue to expect rising health care prices and spending as we move through 2023.
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Apr 10 2023

April 2023 CV-19 Data Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another month of data shows the ongoing decline in CV-19 cases, which probably reflects reporting trends as much as real infections.
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Apr 08 2023

Why Health System Consolidation Is Bad for Consumers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital/physician practice integration raises costs with no countervailing improvement in quality.
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Apr 07 2023

A Mindless Mindfulness Exercise

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another supposedly great health intervention bites the dust.
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Apr 06 2023

Another Example of Why You Can’t Trust Most Climate “Data”

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An interesting question is why the climate "experts" don't seem to want good quality temperature data.
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Apr 06 2023

Who Owns Little Timmy Walz and Minnesota Policy?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Minnesota DFL and Little Timmy Walz are owned by the government employee unions and rich ideologues.
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Apr 05 2023

The Phony Job Numbers Begin to Reverse

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Even the federal government can only lie about the state of the labor market for so long.
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Apr 05 2023

Woke Medicine Kills

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Woke medicine means lower quality clinicians and worse outcomes for patients.
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Apr 04 2023

More on Health Care Utilization, Spending and Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
And interesting look at trends in utilization and costs of visits to non-traditional sites of care, such as retail clinics, urgent care centers and ERs.
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Apr 03 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 203

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The national championship for research summaries continues with no end in sight.
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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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Another company whose valuation I don’t understand, Oura Health which makes the ring that supposedly tracks all kinds of health-related data for people, is acquiring a company called Counsel Health...
November 10, 2026
Cencora, formerly Amerisource Bergen, a large drug wholesaler, is acquiring a greater equity stake in American Oncology Network.  All three of the major drug wholesalers have interests in oncology companies....
October 22, 2026
There is some weird angle here, as Angle Health raises $600 million in a new capital round, but it appears some of it is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders....
September 22, 2026
More AI craziness in health care.  A company called H1 is buying Defacto Health for God-knows how much money.  Both companies claim an AI background and to help with “provider...
September 11, 2026

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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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