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Mar 24 2023

The CDC Is a Font of Methodological and Statistical Error

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Several times in the last three years I and others have pointed out serious flaws in CDC work, and a new paper critques the body of the CDC's epidemic work.
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Mar 24 2023

A Couple of Health Care Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple of pieces of health care research focus on high health care spending and its causes.
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Mar 21 2023

Minnesota’s New Energy Insanity, Part 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota is a particularly poor place to rely on solar power, but other states aren't really that much better.
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Mar 21 2023

A Quick SVB Follow-up

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
As I suspected, the SVB saga is primarily one of regulatory malfeasance, coupled with political machinations.
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Mar 19 2023

Tom Frieden Speaks in the WSJ

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A public health expert writes an article for the WSJ which amply demonstrates why Americans have such high distrust of these "experts".
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Mar 19 2023

Why Ukraine Matters

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Not supporting Ukraine is asking for far worse conflicts in the future.
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Mar 19 2023

Tim Walz’ Minnesota Sucks

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
I am in the free state of Florida right now, but my home state is unfortunately the woefully misled Minnesota.
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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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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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