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Nov 20 2024

Income Inequality in the United States

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Income inequality is real, but it isn't growing when transfer payments and taxes are considered.
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Nov 19 2024

How Physician Practice Patterns Affect Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Commercial health plan members appear to have less variation in physican practice patterns and spending than do those people covered by Medicare.
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Nov 18 2024

Medicare Advantage Out-of-Pocket Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Enrollees in Medicare Advantage pay substantially lower out-of-pocket costs than do those in traditional Medicare.
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Nov 17 2024

Help, It’s Melting, It’s Melting

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Antarctic sea ice stubbornly refuses to melt, as natural processes appear to dominate its variability.
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Nov 16 2024

What I Fear for Trump

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Trump is undermining himself when he already faces a rotten economy under the surface. Enough with the stupid distractions.
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Nov 14 2024

Meanwhile, There Is Economic News

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We have a lot of debt, somewhat high interest rates, stubborn price pressures and stretched consumers.
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Nov 14 2024

Well That Didn’t Take Long

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
In the midst of a clear victory and a political grace period, Trump of course finds a way to self-destruct.
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Nov 13 2024

Trump’s Economic Policies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Trump's focus should be on regulatory reform; not high tariffs or tax cuts.
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Nov 11 2024

November Non-Hysterical Climate Science

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another climate study challenges the hysterical orthodoxy that CO2 is controlling termperature.
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Nov 10 2024

Minnesota’s Education System Is in Massive Decline Under Wannabe Rockette Walz

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota's education system is expensive and declining in student learning.
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Nov 08 2024

A Little Economic News in the Midst of the Election Aftermath

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Watch interest rates on US debt over the next couple of weeks to see what the market thinks Trump's deficit actions will be.
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Nov 07 2024

Why Can’t We All Get Along, Part 2–Why Should We?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
This election isn't likely to end the intense political division largely caused by Dems and it shouldn't until they demonstrate a sincere desire to change.
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Nov 06 2024

How to Waste an Election

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The new administration has to show determination to eliminate the deficit and begin reducing our debt pile.
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Nov 06 2024

Credit Where Credit Is Due

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
It has been an amazing campaign and Trump deserves all the credit for his perseverance.
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Nov 06 2024

No Time for Gloating, Well, Maybe in One Respect its Okay

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
If you have come to despise Little Timmy, as I have, revel in his humiliation last night.
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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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