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Jun 27 2023

A New Candidate for Dumbest Piece of Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A piece of such obvious partisan hackery should never be published, but in today's environment it is created with open arms.
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Jun 26 2023

Minnesota’s Inevitable Decline Is Just Beginning

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More evidence of Minnesota and Minneapolis' decline.
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Jun 26 2023

Happy Late Fathers’ Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Fatherlessness is a real epidemic with horrifying consequences; it is also morally despicable.
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Jun 24 2023

What Systemic Racism in Law Enforcement?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota is racist in law enforcement all right--one group largely gets a free pass despite disproportionately being responsible for criminal activity.
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Jun 23 2023

A Visual Look at Our Fiscal Quandry

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Maybe seeing how bad our deficit and debt are will make a difference, but I doubt it.
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Jun 23 2023

How to Lie With Graphs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Environmentalist loonies caught with another of their graphing tricks in regard to ice loss.
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Jun 23 2023

The Earth Is Burning Up and There is Drought Everywhere

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Contary to what you might read, there is nothing unusual about recent dry spells.
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Jun 22 2023

Hospital Pricing

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital pricing is arcane and opaque, but as usual relative market power influences price levels.
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Jun 21 2023

Some Medicare Advantage Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Medicare Advantage is likely more efficient and provides better quality of care than does traditional Medicare.
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Jun 20 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 213

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A few more interesting nuggets on vaccines and other aspects of the epidemic and the response to it.
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Jun 19 2023

Non-profit Hospitals Generally Screw Patients and Taxpayers. (Updated)

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Non-profit and tax-exempt hospitals charge high prices, make a ton of money, pay excessive compensation and provide little free care. Other than that they are great.
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Jun 19 2023

Value-Based Purchasing Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Value-based purchasing in health care is hot, but of unproven value.
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Jun 17 2023

A Quick Reminder About Where People Want to Live

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
One irrebuttable fact is that people are moving out of whacked pro(re)gressive states to conservative ones, in astounding numbers.
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Jun 17 2023

We Are Failing Our Adolescents and Young Adults

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Our youngest citizens are killing themselves and others at an alarming and growing rate.
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Jun 16 2023

Real-time Health Care Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Altarum health spending and health inflation trackers are also indicating much faster growth in each.
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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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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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