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Mar 09 2024

Climate Tidbits

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Actual examination of longer period temperature data shows a cooling trend over thousands of years and nothing unusual about the recent warming period.
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Mar 08 2024

Why Bother Looking at the Jobs Reports?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another jobs report that should be disregarded for at least a month.
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Mar 08 2024

Health Insurance Affordability

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Health insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable for small employers.
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Mar 07 2024

Failure to Secure the Border Is Poisoning and Killing Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Failure to secure the border leads to drug overdoses and poisoning of young children.
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Mar 07 2024

Another Suspicious Economic Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
More news that suggests the economy is not exactly humming along.
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Mar 06 2024

Tolstoy and Russia

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another biography down, a giant of Russian and world literature.
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Mar 05 2024

Early Spring Altarum Update on Health Spending and Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another set of briefs on health care spending, utilization and prices.
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Mar 04 2024

Minnesota’s Electricity Supply

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Minnesota electricity generation sources and grid are getting more expensive and less reliable.
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Mar 04 2024

Will There Ever Be a Study Showing Lots of CV-19 Vax Serious Adverse Events?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Here is another study the VSNs can ignore, showing no enhanced risk of adverse events from a CV-19 booster.
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Mar 03 2024

Is Anyone Defending Lockdowns Anymore?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new study finds extensive benefits from Sweden's refusal to join the lockdown herd during the epidemic.
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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

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
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

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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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