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Jun 20 2025

A Certain Political Group Contains the Real Authoritarians

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An excellent article buttresses what I have been saying for decades, pro(re)gressives are delusional about their authoritarian tendencies.
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Jun 19 2025

Minnesota State-run Universities Raise Tuition and Supposedly Cut Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota's universities are raising prices far above general inflation, a reflection of how badly they are run.
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Jun 18 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, June 18, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A great article by real scientists extols the benefits of CO2 and the falsity of greenhouse gas-based climate hysteria.
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Jun 17 2025

US Debt Auction, June 16, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another longer-term US debt auction priced at a far higher interest rate than just two or three years ago.
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Jun 16 2025

The Anti-Strib, June 16, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Endless streams of ideologically driven garbage from the Strib.
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Jun 16 2025

More Real Research On Transgender Insanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Research shows that giving biological males estrogen creates serious health risks.
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Jun 16 2025

Large Health Care Claims

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Large health care claims are increasing. Cancer treatment costs are a prime reason.
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Jun 15 2025

World Gone Crazy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
What we see around the world today is a reflection of the tragic nature of humanity.
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Jun 13 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of June 9, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A fairly good week for US debt issuance, but rates needed to get buyers are going up.
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Jun 12 2025

Minnesota’s Economy Looking Great, Not

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota's initial unemployment claims in recent weeks tell us something is not going great.
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Jun 11 2025

Inflation Appears Largely Under Control

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Inflation looks muted and is lower in Republican-run states.
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Jun 11 2025

Minnesota’s Population Problem

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Residents leave Minnesota at a very high rate, especially middle-income working families.
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Jun 10 2025

RFK, Jr. Will Be Next to Go

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
RFK, Jr. can't avoid trying to exercise his whacked conspiracy theory nonsense, which overwhelms the good policies he could prefer.
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Jun 10 2025

Now You Tell Us, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The media that praised restrictions on children during the epidemic now writes articles about how damaging they were.
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Jun 10 2025

Using Real Science for Public Policy

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An under-appreciated Executive Order beefs up the requirements for research to be considered by federal agencies.
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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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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
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025

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