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Oct 13 2025

Personal Income Growth Among Sub-Groups

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Over the last two decades, it appears that household income has grown more rapidly in low-income households, but this has had a minor impact on perceptions of income and wealth…
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Oct 12 2025

Price Differences for the Same Health Service in Different Settings

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospitals are using their market and lobbying power to force payers to reimburse them at a higher rate than surgi-centers receive.
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Oct 11 2025

Mark Twain

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new Ron Chernow biography of Mark Twain is informative and enlightening.
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Oct 10 2025

Another Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Study

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An innovative paper using military members examines factors behind geographic variations in health spending.
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Oct 10 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of October 6, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A mixed week for the ever-mounting US debt sales.
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Oct 09 2025

Another Potential Adverse Effect from Medications

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Use of prescription drugs can alter the intenstinal micro-biome.
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Oct 09 2025

Another Dem Hellhole State

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I visit another Dem run-state that is in significant decline.
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Oct 08 2025

Second Quarter 2025 Venture Capital Activity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Venture capital and private equity activity continued to sort of limp along through the first half of 2025.
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Oct 08 2025

What Is “Autism” and Are There Variants of the Condition

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
An interesting study looks at differences in children diagnosed as "autistic" at different ages.
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Oct 07 2025

Tim Walz Is Destroying Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Families in Minnesota are getting squeezed as household income drops while costs rise rapidly, more of Little Timmy Walz' great work.
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Oct 07 2025

Cancer and CV-19 Vaccines

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another garbage CV-19 safety study.
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Oct 06 2025

The Twin Cities Are Safe, Really Safe–for Criminals

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Light rail in the Twin Cities is an expensive boondoogle that is so unsafe it is driving riders. The cities' solutions are a joke.
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Oct 06 2025

Membership in Health Plans

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Over 300 million Americans get health care coverage from a health plan company.
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Oct 05 2025

Cancer and Cancer Diagnoses

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Are there really more cases of cancer in young people or just more diagnoses?
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Oct 04 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, October 4, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Arctic ice refuses to melt, jeopardizing Al Gore's ability to continue to make billions from the global climate warming scam.
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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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IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
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

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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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