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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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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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