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Jan 11 2023

Breakthrough Events, January 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We are transitioning breakthrough reporting to once a month.
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Jan 10 2023

Flu Vaccines Don’t Work Very Well Either

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Influenza vaccines have a long history of very modest effectiveness.
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Jan 09 2023

The BLS Keeps Misleading on Jobs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another month, another set of misleading employment stats from the Biden non-administration.
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Jan 07 2023

Little Timmy Walz Hates Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Judging by his actions and the results of those actions, which is the only way to judge a politician and policy-maker, Little Timmy Walz hates Minnesota's children.
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Jan 06 2023

Excess Deaths in Minnesota, Part 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Tables of Minnesota deaths over the last few years from three sources.
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Jan 05 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 184

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Yes, unfortunately I still have to do these into a new year and the title even more unfortunately continues to be accurate.
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Jan 03 2023

Anyone Who Questions Climate “Science” Has to Hide It

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some research casting doubt on the climate emergency scam manages to somehow filter its way into the public's eye.
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Jan 02 2023

Racism in Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another trash research paper with a racial orientation, which is all woke medicine cares about.
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Jan 02 2023

A Slight Diversion on the Excess Death Topic

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Some causes seeing increased deaths are just beyond tragic, and are the fault of our dodo progressive politicians.
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Jan 02 2023

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Drug company advertising not only raises the use and cost of drugs, it forces more spending on physician visits.
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Jan 01 2023

What Devilment Will Occur in 2023?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Not sure 2023 will be any better than 2022. Waiting for DeSantis 2024.
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Dec 31 2022

The Year in Review

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
2022 was a year of retrogression for humanity and for the United States. We have no one to blame but ourselves; or well really, that part of us that buys…
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Dec 31 2022

The Alarming Cost of New Drugs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
If just a few very high-priced treatments were subjected to value-based pricing, tens of billions of dollars might be saved.
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Dec 31 2022

Excess Mortality Studies

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A relatively easy to read paper provides excellent background on calculating excess deaths.
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Dec 31 2022

Year-Over-Year Chart, Year-end Edition

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another full year of epidemic hysteria has passed and I keep waiting for it to completely subside.
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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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