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Mar 08 2023

Breakthrough Events, March 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Same boring trend, with the vaxed and vaxed and boosted responsible for most events.
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Mar 07 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 198

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The illusory "long" CV-19 is featured heavily in this set of research summaries.
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Mar 07 2023

Greenland Isn’t So Green

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Greenland was pretty green when the Vikings came there and established several towns, but it got a lot colder and it is basically all white ice now.
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Mar 06 2023

Year-Over-Year Charts, March 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It's over, except for a few nuts who can't let go.
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Mar 06 2023

Minnesota’s New Energy Insanity, Part 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More on the likely devastation caused by progressives insane insistence on unreliable and expensive so-called renewable energy.
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Mar 05 2023

Changes in the Workforce

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A couple of interesting reports on workforce trends and methods for determing labor statistics.
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Mar 03 2023

Public Schools Suck, Even in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota's public schools are worthless for teaching children anything of substance, but great at indoctrination that makes money for teachers and administrators and keeps jackasses like Little timmy walz in…
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Mar 03 2023

Young Woke Progressives Have More Mental Health Issues

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A study finds that progressive political views are associated with more mental health among adolescents, especially female young people.
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Mar 02 2023

Why There Are Sometimes Issues With Health Claims Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
One practice driving higher health spending is pretending that episodes of care are made to appear more intensive than they are for billing purposes.
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Mar 01 2023

Vertical Integration in Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Allowing health systems to buy physician practices results in higher prices and lower quality--patients suffer in two ways.
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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

Headlines

A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 2026
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

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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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