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Dec 22 2022

Tim Walz Hires a Racist as the New Health Commissioner

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Minnesota's new health commissioner is a racist through and through, with no knowledge or experience relevant to actual improvement of public health.
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Dec 22 2022

More Inflation and Debt Disaster

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Congress dumps another holiday turkey on the citizenry in the form of a massive unnecessary spending bill.
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Dec 21 2022

Even Over the Holidays, Posts Are Coming

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Got a lot of stuff in the hopper, just a little time-constrained right now and Dave and others are working on a great series on excess deaths.
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Dec 20 2022

RSV Infection Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The RSV wave in Minnesota appears to have peaked.
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Dec 19 2022

Breakthrough Events, December 15

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yawn, the vaxed or vaxed and boosted are responsible for the vast majority of epidemic events.
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Dec 19 2022

Year-Over-Year Comparison

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another week, still no signs of a major case rise.
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Dec 18 2022

National Health Spending in 2021

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An annual report breaks down 2021 health spending.
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Dec 17 2022

More on the Cooked Employment Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new government report from a Federal Reserve Bank reveals that in fact the federal government has been massively inflating (i.e., lying about) the pace of job creation in 2022.
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Dec 15 2022

Coronamonomania Lasts Forever, Part 181

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Its snowing here in Minnesota, so I am dropping a blizzard of research summaries.
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Dec 15 2022

Just When You Think CV-19 Research Could Not Be Any Worse

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Two recent "studies" remind us that in our current world you have to dig out the truth for yourself, you can't trust message-driven "science" or researchers.
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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts-Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The final set of redone relative risk charts, on deaths.
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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts–Hospitalizations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As with cases, using accurate population sizes introduces massive changes in relative risk numbers for the 65 and over group.
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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts–Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Relative risk charts, as used by Minnesota DOH, can be another way of showing vax effectiveness, or ineffectiveness.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events, As of Week of December 8, Ages 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated assessment of epidemic events in the age 65 and over subgroup, showing that currently there is very little benefit from vax or boosting.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events As of Week of December 8, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In this age group there also is very little current protection from vax or boosting.
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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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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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