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Sep 09 2022

More on Excess Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 32 Comments
These are the most important charts I periodically post--this is what Tim Walz and Jan Malcolm did to Minnesotans--killed them with the terror campaign.
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Nov 07 2020

The Lowbrow Crowd Arrives

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Don't read the blog if you aren't interested in a thoughtful discussion of the science and the data relating to the epidemic and don't comment if you have no intellectual…
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Mar 24 2020

Do Your Part to Bring Sanity to Coronavirus Reactions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We all need to step up and insist that appropriate action be taken to protect Americans from the ruination of our economy.
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Mar 20 2020

More Straight Talk on Coronavirus

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The destruction of the economy has real consequences for people's lives, and those consequences are far worse than anything coronavirus could do.
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Mar 18 2020

More on the Damage from the Irrational Coronavirus Reaction

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We all need to think about whether the extreme damage that is being done to people's lives by the reaction to the coronavirus isn't worse than the disease itself.
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Jan 09 2026

Employment Report for December 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The last employment report covering 2025 is not great, not awful.
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Jan 08 2026

Minnesota’s Baffoons Can’t Stay Out of the News

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
There is a massive, well-funded, extreme leftist organization behind the ICE interference and other actions to impede the current Administration.
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Jan 07 2026

JOLTS Report for November 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A labor report for November 2025 doesn't really suggest any particular economic movement up or down.
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Jan 07 2026

Health Insurance and Health Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital costs are far and away the biggest contributor to the rise in medical costs and health insurance premiums.
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Jan 06 2026

Hear Me Speak on Health Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

A reminder, I will be speaking this Saturday, January 10, at 10 am at the Maple Grove Community Center.  The topic will be US health care and health insurance costs.

Jan 05 2026

Good Riddance to Maduro and Walz

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Two of the worst leaders anywhere are gone, and the people whose lives they degraded are celebrating.
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Jan 02 2026

Collectivism? No Such Thing.

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Collectivism is a made-up concept used to justify certain individuals trying to rule all of us.
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Jan 01 2026

Not Sure How to Explain this Interaction

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune replies to an email, which he likely now regrets.
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Jan 01 2026

Happy New Year, We’ll See How Happy We Are at the End of It!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I hope each of you is having a truly warm holiday period and that 2026 brings you many blessings.
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Dec 31 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, December 31, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A couple of new studies provide further undermining of the climate hysterics narrative.
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Dec 31 2025

Additional Employee Health Benefits Information for 2026

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple more reports relating to employer health benefit plans and high cost claims.
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Dec 30 2025

How Concentrated Is the US Health Insurance Market

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A couple of studies examine trends in concentration in the health insurance market.
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Dec 29 2025

Anti-depressant Medications Have a Depressing Number of Side Effects

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Medications for depression can cause a variety of physiological changes, some of which may be harmful.
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Dec 29 2025

Big Sigh, I Hate to Keep Writing about This Topic

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yet another study finds that the CV-19 vax cannot possibly be associated in any meaningful way, or any way at all, with deaths.
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Dec 28 2025

Cary Grant

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Cary Grant is one of the all-time screen idols.
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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

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This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 2025
Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025

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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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