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May 03 2023

Personal Income and Educational Attainment

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Data on educational level achieved and income is illuminating.
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May 03 2023

How Bad Can Our Education System Get?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Data from the National Center of Education Statistics reflects the lack of educational attainment in US schools.
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May 02 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 208

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Important research continues to dribble out related to the epidemic and our response to it.
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May 01 2023

A New Entrant for Most Misleading Op-ed

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A David Brooks op-ed misleading claims people flee Democratic-run states to go to Dem urban areas in conservative states.
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Apr 30 2023

More on Minnesota’s Declining Economy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Minnesota ranks near the bottom in economic growth and personal income growth for the 4th quarter and all of 2022.
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Apr 29 2023

Little Timmy’s Paradise Is Losing People and Income

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The Minnesota paradise that Little Timmy Walz thinks he is creating is bleeding taxable income and high income taxpayers. Wonder why?
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Apr 27 2023

Yeah, Those CO2 Levels Are Really Unprecedented

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
It has been a lot warmer in the past on Earth and CO2 levels have been a lot higher.
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Apr 26 2023

Commercial Health Plan Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Health Care Cost Institute release a useful report on spending over the last five years for the commercial health plan populations.
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Apr 25 2023

Medicare Advantage Is Booming but with Some Warning Signs

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The Medicare Advantage program is growing rapidly and will soon dominate Medicare.
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Apr 25 2023

Minnesota Contributes to DEI Fraudulent Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Professors at the University of Minnesota make their contribution to fraudulent DEI research.
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Apr 23 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 205

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Sunday catchup on CV-19 research, with the usual multiplicity of topics.
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Apr 22 2023

Return to (In)sanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
American and Minnesota are going tube city quickly.
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Apr 20 2023

Unemployment Claims Revisions

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A chart shows just how fake the initial BLS unemployment claims numbers are.
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Apr 20 2023

Weather Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Weather related deaths are actually decreasing.
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Apr 19 2023

Why Republicans Should Refuse to Raise the Debt Limit Without Massive Spending Reductions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
2023 is experiencing a far higher federal budget deficit than originally forecast. We have to stop spending.
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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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