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Aug 19 2025

Ukraine and Russia

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
President Trump is doing great work in his efforts at ending wars, but we need to be cautious that we don't enable barbaric dictators.
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Aug 17 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, August 17, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A reformulation of issues about temperature and climate changes provides a good challenge to the hysterical narrative.
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Aug 16 2025

More Evidence of Sharp Health Insurance Price Increases for 2026

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Employer health plans are bracing for cost increases of 10% or more for 2026. The pain will fall largely on employees.
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Aug 15 2025

Podcasts

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Podcasting has resumed.
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Aug 14 2025

Medicaid Work Requirements

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Forcing Medicaid recipients to work or lose coverage has no effect on ER visits or hospitalizations.
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Aug 13 2025

Over-diagnosis in Medicine

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Driven by multiple factors, overdiagnosis is a cause of excess health spending and patient anxiety.
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Aug 12 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, August 12, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research continues to bleed through on the lack of any climate crisis.
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Aug 12 2025

July 2025 Consumer Price Index Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The inflation report is consistent with expectations but not with the economic reality for consumers.
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Aug 11 2025

Days of Rags

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another set of days of the Anti-Strib, with ample national and local fodder.
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Aug 09 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, August 9, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Metropolitan areas are far warmer than their outlying rural regions, accounting for almost all supposed warming in recent decades.
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Aug 08 2025

Another Wonderful Pro(re)gressive Idea

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Decriminalizing drugs has bad consequences for crime, who would have thought that.
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Aug 07 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of August 3, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Not a good week for US debt auctions, another harbinger that the market is not happy with our deficits.
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Aug 07 2025

Physician Pay in 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A very detailed report on physician compensation in 2024.
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Aug 06 2025

Renewable Energy and Grid Reliability

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A report on America's electricity generation and transmission grid is sobering reading.
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Aug 05 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, August 5, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The US Department of Energy releases a report that provides a more rational perspective on climate. I strongly encourage anyone who really wants to understand climate to read this report.
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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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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
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
March 4, 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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