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Mar 06 2025

Leonardo da Vinci

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another good biography of a fascinating human.
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Mar 06 2025

The Anti-Strib, March 6, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another painful day addressing biased reporting in the Strib.
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Mar 06 2025

The Anti-Strib, March 5, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Your daily corrective to the Dem house organ.
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Mar 05 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, March 5, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The supposed trend in CO2 may be erroneous due to problems with historical measurements.
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Mar 05 2025

What RFK, Jr. Gets Right About Drugs

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Over-diagnosis of certain conditions and subsequent over-prescribing of medications is a prime reason for excessive health spending.
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Mar 04 2025

The Anti-Strib, March 4, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
More one-sided coverage from the daily rag.
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Mar 04 2025

The Real Transgender Science

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More science showing just how evil gender-disaffirming care is.
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Mar 04 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, March 4, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Newly unearthed aerial photos demonstrate that the Antarctic peninsula has had stable ice cover for over 80 years.
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Mar 03 2025

The Anti-Strib, March 3, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Your daily dose against Strib brainwashing.
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Mar 03 2025

Bessent Is Getting His Lower Ten-year Treasury Interest Rate–for the Wrong Reason

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Interest rates on US debt have dropped but only because of economic fears.
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Mar 03 2025

The Anti-Strib, March 2, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another dose of correctives to our local Dem rag.
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Mar 02 2025

America First Shouldn’t Mean Pissing Off the Rest of the World

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Trump's actions in regard to other countries is having the unintended consequence of hurting our economy and making the world more volatile.
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Mar 01 2025

The Anti-Strib, March 1, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Trying to give a fuller picture of the news than you will get from the Strib.
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Mar 01 2025

Some Sensible Mask Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
More research on the inefficacy of masks at stopping virus exhalation or inhalation.
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Feb 28 2025

The Anti-Strib, February 28, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A hopefully-regular corrective to the worthless rag that passes for our local newspaper.
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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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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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