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Mar 27 2024

What Is Going on in the US Debt Markets?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Treasury seems determined to rely on massive amounts of short-term debt to finance our huge deficits.
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Mar 26 2024

A “Solid” Treasury Auction Shows How Screwed Up this Market Is

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A supposedly solid two year federal debt auction reveals the true state of the market.
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Mar 25 2024

Why the Average Person Knows the Economy Sucks

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Real wage growth is basically non-existent.
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Mar 24 2024

Yes, Jann Wenner Is a You Know What

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A current biography of Jann Wenner confirms what his memoir suggested--he is a jackass.
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Mar 22 2024

The Week in Economics and Finance

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
No matter how much Bidementia pushes out fake economic numbers, the reality is that we are well beyond the tipping point to economic misery for decades.
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Mar 20 2024

The Original Ad

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Here is where to find the text of the original ad I placed in March of 2020.
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Mar 20 2024

Four Years Ago, Events that Caused Immense Damage Began

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Four years ago, the nation likely suffered irreparable damage from the initiation of a futile and untested epidemic response.
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Mar 18 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
March madness is here and coronamonomania persists as well.
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Mar 16 2024

“Long” Covid Is Illusory?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another study reveals that "long" CV-19 is in fact mythic.
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Mar 15 2024

Charles Dickens

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The latest brief bio summary is in regard to Charles Dickens, a beloved author with the usual complicated life.
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Mar 14 2024

A Quick Economic Note

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Despite what headline numbers may suggest, there is a lot of rottenness in the economy.
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Mar 14 2024

Transgender Mania Is Built on Lies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Transgender lunacy continues apace, while evidence of its harms also gathers. England shows some sanity.
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Mar 13 2024

Deficits, Debt and Bonds

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More great news on US debt sales, the deficit and the economy.
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Mar 12 2024

Price Rises Are Not Under Control, Especially if You Count Right

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another higher than expected CPI report, which if interest rates and actual health care prices were included would be even higher.
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Mar 11 2024

Marriage Birth Rates and Young Americans

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
America's young adults are also unable to engage in important aspects of what makes life satisfying and enjoyable.
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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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