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Aug 08 2022

Age Structure Raw Numbers Charts, August 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The epidemic keeps rolling along, largely beneath the surface, just like colds do all the time.
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Aug 07 2022

Self-Insured Acquisitions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple of recent acquistions reflect both the vitality and the difficulty of success for vendors in the self-funded health plan world.
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Aug 06 2022

Jan Malcolm Whines and Lies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 17 Comments
Our Commissioner of Health feels sorry for herself and displays no awareness of the horrific damage she inflicted on Minnesotans during the epidemic.
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Aug 06 2022

Breakthrough Events, August 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough data, with those events contributing to the slight uptick in all events.
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Aug 05 2022

Phony Jobs Reports and Real Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A phoney jobs report can't hide signs of weakness in the economy and provides further steam for inflation prospects.
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Aug 05 2022

Another Brilliant Progressive Policy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
St. Paul leads the way in rent control, achieving the predictable, except to progressives, result of making things worse for low-income persons.
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Aug 04 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 158

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The week winds down, but not the coronavirus research summaries.
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Aug 04 2022

Reinfection Case Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Re-infection hospitalization and death case rates are a little lower than those for breakthrough cases.
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Aug 03 2022

Health Spending: the Calm Before the Storm

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health care spending growth has been almost nonexistent for a year and a half, due to far lower health care cost inflation compared to general inflation. That is ending.
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Aug 02 2022

Physician Compensation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
An updated report relating to clinician compensation gives you a sense of why US health care costs so much.
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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

IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 2026
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

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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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