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May 07 2023

The End of the End

By Kevin Roche Commentary 24 Comments
This week will see the end of the CV-19 epidemic-related tables and charts on Minnesota data, but the blog will carry on.
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May 06 2023

The Truth About Historic Temperatures and CO2 Levels

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Ice cores reveal the inconvenient truth that temperatures have been significantly higher in the past and CO2 levels don't appear to be the dominant factor in temperature level.
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May 06 2023

Adding More Fuel to the Youth Mental Health Crisis

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota passes an extreme cannibis legalization bill, ensuring higher rates of schizophrenia among teens and young adults.
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May 05 2023

The Employment Number Games Continue–Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The jobs numbers are phony, until revised, productivity is declining and unit labor costs are rising. The economy sucks.
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May 05 2023

More Climate Nonsense Debunked

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Sea levels are rising incredibly slowly, are not accelerating, and don't threaten our coasts, but whacko-environmentalists spread their lies anyway.
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May 05 2023

Hospital-Acquired Infections

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Infections are being contracted in a hospital at an increasing rate, endangering patient health.
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May 04 2023

Little Timmy’s Lies Can’t Hide Minnesota’s Decline

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yay, we are number 48, as Dems destroy Miinnesota's economy, our outlook is one of the worst in the country and our quality of life is declining.
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May 04 2023

Our Children Aren’t Learning History Either

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
American students don't know anything about history either.
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May 03 2023

Personal Income and Educational Attainment

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Data on educational level achieved and income is illuminating.
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May 03 2023

How Bad Can Our Education System Get?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Data from the National Center of Education Statistics reflects the lack of educational attainment in US schools.
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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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