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Apr 17 2022

Massive Climate Warming in Rural Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The best US temperature data is from long-time rural stations, which rarely show significant warming. Here is an example from Minnesota.
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Apr 16 2022

The Real System of Oppression

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Learning about "systems of oppression" is a common whacko progressive program in schools, but the real system of oppression is what they are doing to students.
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Apr 16 2022

Age Structure Charts, April 14

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another non-eventful weeks' age structure charts.
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Apr 15 2022

Regional Cases Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A look at regional cases indicates nothing significant going on.
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Apr 14 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 127

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Plugging away with a few more research summaries.
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Apr 12 2022

Breakthrough Events, April 11, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The age structure of breakthrough events, including the percent vaxed, which gives a sense of vax effectiveness.
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Apr 12 2022

Breakthrough Events, April 11, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week with a low-level of CV-19 events, but breakthroughs are a majority in each category.
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Apr 11 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 126

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A couple of interesting studies in this morning's research compilation.
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Apr 10 2022

Age Series Charts, April 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest in our series of charts of events by age group.
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Apr 09 2022

The US Economic and Financial Situation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
People can ignore it all they want, but our national financial and economic situation is dreadful, with little hope of repair.
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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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