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Nov 05 2022

Phony Jobs Numbers and a Rotten Economy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The jobs reports have had some issues lately, but the reality is that the economy is a mess because of excessive federal spending
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Nov 04 2022

Temperature Errors By the Climate Alarmists

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The official temperature data is full of flaws, all of which create spurious warming trends.
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Nov 03 2022

California Nightmarin’

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Businesses and people are leaving California, but Dems want to impose its policies on everyone.
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Nov 03 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 174

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
On and on and on this goes, with continuing vax heavy research.
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Nov 02 2022

You Must Be Kidding, You Cannot Be Serious

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Our local source of ideological pap and one-sided non-reporting endorses the Incompetent Blowhard for re-election, noting his "steady leadership".
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Nov 01 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 173

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A little late for your Halloween celebrations, but a basket of research treats for you!
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
On an entire population basis, vaxiing and boosting have unclear value at preventing events.
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27, Ages 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In the very oldest age group, being vaxed does seem to show some benefit in terms of infection, hospitalization and death.
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As we get to older age groups, we are still seeing minimal protection against cases, hospitalizations or deaths from the vax.
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A big chunk of the population is in this age group, and the boosted have the highest rates of cases, but vax does seem to limit hospitalization risk for this…
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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

Included Health wants no one to feel left out, so it is buying Firefly Health, which is attracted to the light of all that money.  Included Health is yet another...
July 29, 2026
Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 2026
Speaking frankly, Candid Health looks like one of those companies we don’t need in health.  It claims to have new revenue cycle management software that is heavily driven by AI...
July 27, 2026
Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 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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