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Nov 08 2023

Hate Crimes

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Official statistics give some indication of where hate is actually directed, but understate the problem and a bigger issue is which groups are engaging in this behavior.
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Nov 07 2023

Wind and Whales and Whoppers

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The National Academy of Sciences ducks its responsibility to forthrightly assign severe ocean environment harms to offshore wind farms.
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Nov 07 2023

Dope, Including Pot, Makes You a Dope and Makes You Dead Faster

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Marijuana has very substantial health issues associated with use, but that doesn't matter to legislators who get lots of contributions from the industry.
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Nov 07 2023

If You Think Today’s Temperatures Are Unprecedented, They Aren’t

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Longer term temperature reconstructions tell a story climate hysterics don't want to hear.
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Nov 06 2023

Medicare’s Bizarre Physician Fee Schedule Change

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Medicare is cutting physician reimbursement, which is contrary to obvious cost increases incurred by these physicians in providing services.
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Nov 06 2023

Suicide Increases

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Suicide rates among younger Americans have been rising for two decades and the reason is obvious.
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Nov 05 2023

Venture Capital in the 3rd Quarter of 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Venture funding has decreased at a significant pace in recent quarters, but there is a lot of capital available for future rounds.
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Nov 03 2023

Why Worry About a Little Lead?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota DOH is good at terrorizing and it attempts to scare parents about lead in a fruit pouch when they should be worried about the toxic garbage being taught their…
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Nov 03 2023

Ooops, the Labor Statistics Mirages Comes to a Crashing Halt

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Even the BLS can only levitate false job numbers for so long.
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Nov 03 2023

Lies About Renewable Energy Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota's electricity rates are soaring as so-called inexpensive, "renewable" energy replaces more reliable cheap sources of electricity.
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Nov 02 2023

Coronamonomania Lasts Forever, Part 229

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another set of epidemic related research summaries.
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Nov 01 2023

Health Price Variation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another study displays the extreme geographic price variation that exists for the same health care service.
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Oct 31 2023

Some Honest Climate Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Research debunking wild climate and renewable energy claims slips through the cracks and I report it for you.
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Oct 30 2023

Kaiser Family Foundation’s Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A first post exploring the Kaiser Family Foundation 2023 survey of employer health benefit plans.
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Oct 29 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 228

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A few CV-19 research summaries for your end of weekend perusal.
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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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