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May 10 2023

The Last Year-Over-Year Chart

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The ultimate big picture chart for the epidemic.
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May 08 2023

A Little Energy and A Little Climate

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Even Biden Administration officials are predicting an electricity crisis and wind farms probably cause drought.
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May 07 2023

The End of the End

By Kevin Roche Commentary 24 Comments
This week will see the end of the CV-19 epidemic-related tables and charts on Minnesota data, but the blog will carry on.
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May 06 2023

The Truth About Historic Temperatures and CO2 Levels

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Ice cores reveal the inconvenient truth that temperatures have been significantly higher in the past and CO2 levels don't appear to be the dominant factor in temperature level.
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May 06 2023

Adding More Fuel to the Youth Mental Health Crisis

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota passes an extreme cannibis legalization bill, ensuring higher rates of schizophrenia among teens and young adults.
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May 05 2023

The Employment Number Games Continue–Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The jobs numbers are phony, until revised, productivity is declining and unit labor costs are rising. The economy sucks.
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May 05 2023

More Climate Nonsense Debunked

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Sea levels are rising incredibly slowly, are not accelerating, and don't threaten our coasts, but whacko-environmentalists spread their lies anyway.
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May 05 2023

Hospital-Acquired Infections

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Infections are being contracted in a hospital at an increasing rate, endangering patient health.
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May 04 2023

Little Timmy’s Lies Can’t Hide Minnesota’s Decline

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yay, we are number 48, as Dems destroy Miinnesota's economy, our outlook is one of the worst in the country and our quality of life is declining.
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May 04 2023

Our Children Aren’t Learning History Either

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
American students don't know anything about history either.
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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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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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This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 2025
Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
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

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