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Feb 12 2023

Drug Advertising

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Drug companies spend more on advertising for products with lower benefits. Figures.
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Feb 12 2023

Climate Is Far More Complex than the Whacko Environmentalists Acknowledge

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
You can find research that counters the global warming narrative, but you have to look for it.
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Feb 12 2023

Minnesota’s New Energy Insanity, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Minnesota passes a bill to make electricity as expensive as possible, while at the same time being unreliable and unavailable.
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Feb 12 2023

Hmmm, Think There Is Some Connection Here?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Being a leftist, especially a female leftist is understandably associated with mental health issues and high levels of intolerance.
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Feb 11 2023

Breakthrough Events, February 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The new monthly update for breakthrough events, for February 2023.
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Feb 11 2023

A Couple of Economic Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
We are in deep, deep financial and economic trouble, with islands of sanity in a few states.
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Feb 11 2023

Births in the US

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A simple chart helps see what the trend in births was pre-epidemic and during the first couple of epidemic years.
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Feb 11 2023

Long-term Care Deaths Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
An updated look at CV-19 deaths in long-term care facilities.
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Feb 10 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 192

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another set of summaries on a wider variety of topics.
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Feb 09 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 191

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
This set of summaries is heavy on the ongoing growth in research showing the very bad effects of lockdowns on health.
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Feb 04 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 190

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Still doing my best to keep you up on the research relevant to the epidemic, the epidemic response and the vaccines.
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Feb 03 2023

Minnesota Dems Go Full-on Crazy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Minnesota has gone full on lunatic in policy.
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Feb 03 2023

(Biggest Sigh Yet) Can We Finally Acknowledge Masks Are Pointless

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The most prestigious source for evidence-based medicine and a large study once more demonstrate the futility of masking.
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Feb 03 2023

Today’s Jobs Report Was the Phoniest Yet

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Once more into the employment reporting mess, since we supposedly had a great jobs report this morning. We didn't.
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Feb 02 2023

More on the Job Number Follies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The US Labor Department continues to spread misinformation on the state of the labor market.
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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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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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