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Dec 07 2022

Health Care Price Inflation is Just Beginning

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new report gives a good background on health care's contribution to inflation.
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Dec 07 2022

A Final Comment on the 2022 Mid-Terms

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Trump has been a disaster for the Republican party in the midterms and needs to exit quickly.
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Dec 06 2022

The Real Vax Effectiveness Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The culiminating post in this series shows an even greater overstatement of vax effectiveness in the 65 and over age group.
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Dec 06 2022

Minnesota Excess Death Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another look at non-CV-19 excess deaths in Minnesota, which likely are equal to or more than the actual CV-19 deaths.
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Dec 05 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 180

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Pretty much caught up with the short set of research summaries on the usual topics.
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Dec 04 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 179

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The first of catchup posts on recent research.
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Dec 03 2022

Once More into the Renewable Energy Breach

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Wind farms are an environmental nightmare and disrupt the regional sea food chains.
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Dec 03 2022

The Clock is Ticking for Tik-Tok

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Tik-Tok is controlled by the Chinese government and used by it to interfere in US elections and policymaking.
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Dec 03 2022

Rotten Jobs Reporting

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
While the mainstream media reliably parrot the official line on jobs growth, a closer look shows it just ain't so.
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Dec 02 2022

Vax Effectiveness Using 2021 Population

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A further exploration of the effect of matching the population size estimates to the year of event data demonstrates an even greater decline in apparent vaccine effectiveness.
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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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