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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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Apr 19 2023

Value-Based Comprehensive Primary Care in Action

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Comprehensive primary care initiatives may not be achieving either reductions in spending or improvements in quality.
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Apr 17 2023

Reference-Based Pricing and Provider Network Size

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Trying to get provider network composition right bedevils payers.
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Apr 16 2023

More on Research Follies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A truly fascinating piece of research demonstrates the difficulty of replicating soft science results.
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Apr 16 2023

People Just Make Sh*t Up and It Gets Believed by Whacked Progressives

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A Florida State University professor just makes up data to try to prove racism. He got caught but most don't.
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Apr 15 2023

An Osteoarthritis Pain Trial Takes a Knee

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An intervention to to reduce knee pain in overweight osteoarthritis patients doesn't lower pain by much.
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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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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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