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Aug 06 2024

Stop Me If You Have Heard This One

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A book on humor seems appropriate when that joke of a human being, Little Timmy Walz, is selected as a VP candidate.
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Aug 06 2024

Little Timmy Walz, the Incompetent Blowhard, Seriously?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Best laugh I have had in a long time, the Incompetent Blowhard for VP.
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Aug 06 2024

The IB Is Concerned About Your Mental Health, While He Attempts to Drive You Crazy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Words cannot adequately describe the deeply cynical press conference held by the Governor last week on mental health.
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Aug 05 2024

What the Epidemic Did to Public Trust in Health Care Providers

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Research confirms that when providers lie to patients about epidemic measures, trust in those providers declines.
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Aug 04 2024

Some People, Okay, a Lot of People, Are too Stupid or too Stubborn to Learn

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Stupidity and stubbornness are a bad combination that is killing our economy and our society.
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Aug 03 2024

Our Young People’s Mental Health

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The mental health crisis among our young people, indeed, all adults, is beyond tragic. It is induced by social media and whacko woke indoctrination and the people who are supposed…
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Aug 02 2024

The Bogus Jobs Reports Hit the End of the Line

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The garbage jobs data put out over the last couple of years finally hit the reality wall--wonder if Bidementia is getting back at Komedylala for pushing him out of office.
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Aug 01 2024

Another Episode of Renewable Energy Follies

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
If you want to really understand climate trends and the true cost of (non)renewable energy sources, you need to find objective sources, not the usual media shills.
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Aug 01 2024

Deloitte and Meharry Lose Their Minds Over Mental Health Equity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another whacked piece of research on health care in America.
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Jul 31 2024

More on Government Employee Compensation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another report shows the divergence in private and government employee compensation.
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Jul 30 2024

First Economic Update of the Week

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another weird and likely abysmal report of job openings, hires and separations.
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Jul 28 2024

More Garbage Research on the Futile Efforts to Suppress CV-19 Spread

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
People are still trying to convince us that lockdowns, masks and vaccines limited the spread of CV-19, even though almost every American has been infected at least once and most…
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Jul 27 2024

More Delightful Economic News

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The usual suspect government economic reports were released.
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Jul 27 2024

I Can’t Explain Fat Timmy Much Better Than This

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
And op-ed nails Little Timmy.
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Jul 25 2024

The US Debt Auctions Are Sending a Message, No One Is Listening

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The size of US debt auctions is creating problems even at the shorter end--wait til you see what happens at the end of summer.
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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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