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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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Oct 28 2023

Climate Hysteria Schadenfreude

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The climate/renewable energy hysteria and scam is unraveling as economic reality bites. Enjoy the hysterics panic.
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Oct 27 2023

Economic Odds and Ends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Official statistics don't convey the economic reality faced by most Americans.
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Oct 27 2023

State to State Migration

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota is losing residents to other states, as you would expect given our incredibly high taxes of all kinds, poor education system that only indoctrinates, and our soaring crime rates.
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Oct 27 2023

More on the Health Care Inflation Mess

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Others share my opinion that BLS is understating health care inflation.
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Oct 25 2023

More on the Health Care Spending and Inflation Picture

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest Altarum briefs show continued growth in health spending and relatively low price growth, which cannot be sustained.
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Oct 24 2023

Dementia Prevalence Is Rising Along with Treatment and Other Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Dementias are the leading health care condition in terms of cost and place multiple other financial burdens on patients.
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Oct 23 2023

Minneapolis Is the Poster Child for What Pro(re)gressives Have Done to Cities

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minneapolis is a typical example of what happens when cities adopt dumb progressive policies.
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Oct 23 2023

More on the Gender Ideology Insanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Gender ideology has no basis in science or research and is destroying children.
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Oct 23 2023

What, There Is a Western Country With Climate Sanity?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from Norway concludes that there is no evidence that temperature trends over the last 200 years are not consistent with past temperature swings.
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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

Headlines

IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 2026
A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 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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