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Aug 11 2023

Understanding Inflation and the Pace of the Economy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The money supply and the velocity of money are critical data to track to help understand economic trends.
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Aug 10 2023

More Detail on What Is Happening in the Economy

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Consumer spending is likely headed for a slowdown, which in turn will lead to far lower economic growth, if not a recession.
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Aug 09 2023

A Boring Health Care Research Post

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A small change in how many chemotherapy drugs are prescribed could save lots of money for payers.
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Aug 08 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 218

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
All caught up now with CV-19-related research.
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Aug 07 2023

Health Care Spending and Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health care spending is continuing a strong rise, but price data is likely understating true growth.
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Aug 07 2023

The Strib Notices that the State Is Losing Young People

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The flood of people, including college students, fleeing Minnesota becomes too large for even the Dem house organ, the Star Tribune, to ignore.
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Aug 06 2023

CV-19 Vaccines and Vaccine Safety

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
An update on vax effectiveness and safety research.
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Aug 05 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 217

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Let a couple of weeks go by and a surprising amount of research is published. Take a couple of posts to catch up.
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Aug 04 2023

I Am in Doomsday Mode, Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The news supports my generally negative view of the country's fate.
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Aug 04 2023

Countries Are Starting to Regret Their CV-19 Responses

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A report from Scotland on the epidemic response is an excellent summary of the epidemic and comes to the obvious conclusion that there was no evidence to support lockdowns, masking,…
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Aug 03 2023

Another Contender in the Dumbest Piece of CV-19 Research Sweepstakes

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another garbage study attempts to portray Republicans as idiots who died more during the epidemic.
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Aug 03 2023

CO2 and Temperature

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Yeah, sure, human-generated CO2 is responsible for raising the world's temperature.
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Aug 03 2023

Systemic Racism and the Law Enforcement and Justice System

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Any systemic racism in law enforcement or the justice system in Minnesota actually runs in favor of African Americans.
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Aug 02 2023

A Closer Look at the Jobs Numbers Always Shows Weakness

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A close look at jobs data shows more economic weakness than the headline would suggest. By fall, revisions will reveal more of the truth.
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Aug 02 2023

High-income People Flee Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota has a very large rate of losing people with high incomes to other states.
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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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GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 2026

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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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