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Aug 23 2023

Holding Schools Accountable Helps Children Later in Life

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An interesting study looks at whether school accountability programs improve student's adult behavior.
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Aug 21 2023

Children Are Skipping School at Record Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Chronic absenteeism rose during the epidemic, and appeared to rise more in states with less in-person schooling. Minnesota is conspicuous by its failure to release data, and you can guess…
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Aug 21 2023

Another Somewhat Boring Health Care Post, This Time on Hospital Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospitals charge the same health plan far more for a commercial member than a Medicare Advantage one.
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Aug 19 2023

Coming Soon to Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Our country and state are already down the toilet and headed for the sewer as our education system becomes pure indoctrination in woke bullshit.
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Aug 19 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 220

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
You are sitting around bored on the weekend and this summary of CV-19 research can put you right to sleep for a pleasant nap.
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Aug 18 2023

Hot Air from Climate Hysterics is Causing Global Warming

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
It may be warm this summer, but it isn't exceptional, except in the minds of climate hysterics.
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Aug 17 2023

Minnesota’s Population Issues

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota's population dynamics reveal extensive domestic migration out of the state of our working population.
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Aug 16 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 219

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Down to maybe getting these off once a week, but there are some interesting findings showing up in research.
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Aug 15 2023

Hospital Acquisitions and Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another report supports the role of hospital consolidation in raising prices while doing nothing to improve quality.
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Aug 14 2023

Ted Lasso Ropes Viewers in for the Last Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A diversion to entertainment, which may or may not be entertaining.
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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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Research

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

Headlines

Color Turquoise Health happy, as it raises $40 million in new capital to support an expansion of its business from price transparency to managing contracts for providers.  Unfortunately the price...
March 18, 2026
Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 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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