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Aug 29 2024

Another Quick Note on the Week’s Treasury Auctions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The US Treasury is playing games with debt issuance, trying to avoid the collapse of the market for anything with a five year or longer term.
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Aug 29 2024

Death Certificates in Minnesota During the Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
My home state attempts to justify how it exaggerated CV-19 deaths during the epidemic.
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Aug 28 2024

Mortality Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Newly released data on deaths in 2023 reveals some interesting changes in various causes and trends.
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Aug 27 2024

It Really Is Climate Hysteria

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Climate hysteria relies on outright lies and twisting of the actual data, whether it is about warming, sea levels or any other issue.
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Aug 26 2024

More Evidence that Health Care Inflation Is High and Rising

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An association of large employer health plans is also projecting a large 8% increase in health plan costs in 2025.
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Aug 26 2024

Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I finished a reread of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, which is highly relevant to today's world.
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Aug 24 2024

Weekend Climate and Energy Follies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
More research and articles on the climate hysteria and renewable energy follies.
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Aug 24 2024

It Is a Pretty Important Election

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
The Dems are exactly who RFK, Jr. said they are, anti-democratic fascists who want to control every aspect of your life. Joy indeed.
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Aug 22 2024

This Week’s Treasury Auctions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
This weeks US debt auctions reflect ongoing concerns about inflation and the US deficit and debt burden.
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Aug 22 2024

About Those Weight-loss Drugs

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Some weight loss drugs may be associated with an increase in suicidal ideation.
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Aug 22 2024

Inflation Explained

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Inflation is most often caused by excessive government spending leading to increases in the money supply.
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Aug 21 2024

However Insane You Think the Dems Are, Multiply it by 100 Times

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A video from the DNC shows what a disgraceful bunch of jackasses the Dems have become.
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Aug 21 2024

Big Jobs Revisions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As projected by knowledgeable analysts, the employment numbers for 2023 saw a huge downward revision today.
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Aug 21 2024

Elon Musk

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An Elon Musk bio paints a in-depth picture of a driven and disturbed individual who has accomplished phenomenal success in seeral important areas.
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Aug 20 2024

Your Weekly Climate Sanity Post

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
There is no unprecedented warming on Earth and temperature is not controlled by CO2.
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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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Focussed primary care clinics had a moment, particularly in regard to Medicare Advantage plans, and that moment has kind of passed.  Similar clinics were operated for employers and other group...
January 29, 2026
Drive Medical, a provider of mobility and other health equipment, is acquiring Compass Health, which provides a variety of consumer health products.  No price terms were released.
January 29, 2026
Sword Health, which offers physical therapy and pain management programs is acquiring Kaia Health,  a German company which focuses on “digital” musculoskeletal and COPD care.  The price is $285 million.
January 29, 2026
This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 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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