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Feb 12 2023

Drug Advertising

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Drug companies spend more on advertising for products with lower benefits. Figures.
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Feb 12 2023

Climate Is Far More Complex than the Whacko Environmentalists Acknowledge

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
You can find research that counters the global warming narrative, but you have to look for it.
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Feb 12 2023

Minnesota’s New Energy Insanity, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Minnesota passes a bill to make electricity as expensive as possible, while at the same time being unreliable and unavailable.
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Feb 12 2023

Hmmm, Think There Is Some Connection Here?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Being a leftist, especially a female leftist is understandably associated with mental health issues and high levels of intolerance.
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Feb 11 2023

Breakthrough Events, February 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The new monthly update for breakthrough events, for February 2023.
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Feb 11 2023

A Couple of Economic Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
We are in deep, deep financial and economic trouble, with islands of sanity in a few states.
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Feb 11 2023

Births in the US

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A simple chart helps see what the trend in births was pre-epidemic and during the first couple of epidemic years.
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Feb 11 2023

Long-term Care Deaths Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
An updated look at CV-19 deaths in long-term care facilities.
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Feb 10 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 192

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another set of summaries on a wider variety of topics.
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Feb 09 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 191

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
This set of summaries is heavy on the ongoing growth in research showing the very bad effects of lockdowns on health.
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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

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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