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Mar 17 2023

Minnesota’s New Energy Insanity, Part 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Minnesota is shutting down way more generating capacity than it is building in renewable.
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Mar 16 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 200

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Spring may never come to Minnesota but my research summaries bloom forever.
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Mar 16 2023

People Are Ignorant and Illogical

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
It is disappointing to see conservatives being so dumb about the Silicon Valley Bank situation.
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Mar 13 2023

People Are Not Rational

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
SVB is a tale of human irrationality and the pernicious effect of woke ideology.
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Mar 12 2023

Where Does All the Public School Money Go?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Public schools are wasting vast amounts of money on staff that have nothing to do with education.
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Mar 11 2023

A Prime Example of Renewable Energy Lunacy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
A recent solar farm approval in Minnesota demonstrates the insanity of renewable energy--expensive, eats up needed farm land, causes lots of environmental damage, but the whackos plunge ahead.
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Mar 11 2023

Pay Attention to How Progressives Are Turning Us into China

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Pro(re)gressives want to force you to act, speak and think only as they believe you should.
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Mar 10 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 199

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yawn, a few more exhilarating pieces of CV-19 research.
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Mar 08 2023

Medicaid Expansions Have No Impact on Mortality

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Medicaid expansions don't do a thing to reduce mortality, because they don't poor health behaviors that lead to death.
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Mar 08 2023

Breakthrough Events, March 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Same boring trend, with the vaxed and vaxed and boosted responsible for most events.
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Mar 07 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 198

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The illusory "long" CV-19 is featured heavily in this set of research summaries.
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Mar 07 2023

Greenland Isn’t So Green

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Greenland was pretty green when the Vikings came there and established several towns, but it got a lot colder and it is basically all white ice now.
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Mar 06 2023

Year-Over-Year Charts, March 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It's over, except for a few nuts who can't let go.
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Mar 06 2023

Minnesota’s New Energy Insanity, Part 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More on the likely devastation caused by progressives insane insistence on unreliable and expensive so-called renewable energy.
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Mar 05 2023

Changes in the Workforce

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A couple of interesting reports on workforce trends and methods for determing labor statistics.
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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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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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