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Apr 10 2024

The Economic Numbers Are Getting Too Bad to Hide

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A bad Treasury debt auction yesterday might have influenced by foreknowledge of a higher than expected inflation report today.
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Apr 10 2024

Medicare and End-of-Life Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A Medicare program to improve end-of-life care lowered expenses and allowed beneficiaries to spend more time at home near the end of their lives.
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Apr 09 2024

50 Years of Futile Attempts to Increase Physican Access

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Government policies to increase the number of physicians in rural and other shortage areas have had no impact for 50 years.
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Apr 08 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yet another wind-down post in regard to epidemic research.
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Apr 07 2024

The Duke

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
My latest adventure in biography-land is the iconic American western actor John Wayne.
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Apr 06 2024

The Weekly Economy News

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The true state of the foundations of our economy is pretty rotten. Deficit spending and illegal immigration can only provide fodder for fake statistics for so long.
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Apr 05 2024

What Conditions Account for US Health Spending?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The Bureau of Economic Analysis releases interesting data on health spending by condition.
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Apr 04 2024

The Enormous Costs of “Renewable” Energy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Enormous amounts of government spending is being wasted on expensive and unreliable "renewable" energy production and consumers' bills will soar.
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Apr 03 2024

DEI and Business Success

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
There is no solid research that DEI, particularly hiring and promoting people on the basis or race, sex and other characteristics, makes a business perform better.
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Apr 02 2024

Wokery is Mental Illness

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Much of the Western World is in the grips of psychotic ideologies which create a cycle of mental illness and violence.
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Apr 01 2024

Medical Device and Drug Industry Payments to Physicians

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Medical product firms push a lot of money at doctors to ensure that their products get used, whether it benefits a patient or not.
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Mar 31 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few more research summaries to accompany your easter egg hunting.
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Mar 30 2024

One Arm of the Government Says the Other is “Lying”

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank fact-checks the Bidementia jobs reports.
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Mar 28 2024

More Economic News

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The Congressional Budget Office is expressing increasing alarm at the federal deficit and debt situation.
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Mar 27 2024

Funniest Story of the Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Would would have thought that hail could destroy a solar farm? Certainly not the nut-case environmentalists pushing renewable energy.
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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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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
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 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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