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Feb 05 2025

No Need for More CV-19 Vax Doses

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Studies continue to show essentially no benefit from additional doses of CV-19 vax.
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Feb 04 2025

OK, Here We Go with New Job Numbers for the New Administration

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Nothing super dramatic in the first JOLTS release of 2025.
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Feb 04 2025

Does Anyone Really Not Understand Trump at this Point?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
What happened over three days in regard to tariffs was totally predictable if you understand Donald Trump's modis operandi.
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Feb 04 2025

There Is No Vote Fraud–Ha, Ha, Ha

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A story from Maine gives further creedence to claims that non-citizens are voting, and are likely encouraged to do so by Dems.
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Feb 03 2025

Our Public Non-education System

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another abysmal report on our educational system.
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Feb 02 2025

Eric Clapton

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another interesting bio on one of popular music's best instrumentalists--a reformed and long-lasting Eric Clapton.
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Feb 01 2025

This Just In (But Not to Me)–School Closures Were Futile

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Keeping kids out of school and ruining their lives had no impact on serious disease or deaths, but it sure made the idiot Governors who ordered these immoral actions very…
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Jan 31 2025

I Wish I Really Understood the Jobs Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A regular revision to the BLS employment numbers raises more questions about how accurate the monthly data is.
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Jan 30 2025

Weight Loss Drugs

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Rapid expansion of the use of GLP-1s may have been accompanied by inadequate exploration of potential safety issues.
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Jan 27 2025

Interesting Debt Auctions Today

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A mixed bag of results on today's auctions of a huge amount of US debt.
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Jan 27 2025

Climate Hysteria Corrected, January 27, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The AMOC is just fine, contrary to climate hysterics claims.
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Jan 26 2025

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Been a while but still putting these out every now and then when there is some interesting research.
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Jan 24 2025

US Inflation-protected Debt Is Indicating Expectations of Higher Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The TIPS US debt auction yesterday suggests that inflation expectations remain elevated.
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Jan 23 2025

Trump Is Fantasizing That He Controls Interest Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Trump can't force interest rates lower any more than the Federal Reserve could.
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Jan 22 2025

Here We Go, One of the First Long-end US Debt Auctions for 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The first longer-term US debt auction of 2025 looks good at first blush but only because the interest rate was so high.
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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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Happy Health is ecstatic to raise $75 million in new capital for its home health monitoring platform, which helps manage sleep apnea and other problems.  We will see how ecstatic...
August 20, 2026
DocGo, a provider of medical transport services and “mobile” health, is acquiring Hicuity Health, which offers “virtual” care services.  To show you what great investments many of these health care...
August 18, 2026
Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 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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