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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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Jul 25 2024

Preventing Cancer

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research on behavioral choices that affect cancer risk is likely over-stated.
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Jul 24 2024

People Don’t Work As Much if They Get a Guaranteed Income–Duh!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Giving people money leads them to work less and actually have less total income.
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Jul 23 2024

Unscientific Transgender Garbage

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The most looney-tunes of all pro(re)gressive policies is the transgender absurdity for which there is no evidence, so the whackos make up their own.
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Jul 22 2024

Make the Green Nonsense Stop, I Am Laughing too Hard

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As I keep saying, "renewable, green" energy and climate hysteria are completely fraudulent.
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Jul 21 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Wow, still cranking a few of these summaries out.
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Jul 20 2024

2025 Increases in Health Costs Will Keep Inflation Up

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A PWC report suggests a very substantial increase in commercial plan health spending in 2025, driven largely by price rises.
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Jul 19 2024

More Green Frivolity

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
I can't help but be amused when the renewable energy crowd's lies are exposed by reality.
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Jul 19 2024

Another Example of How Hospitals Make Money off of Payers and Consumers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The same expensive therapy may have a different cost if done in a different setting.
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Jul 18 2024

Pharmacy Benefit Managers

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The pharmacy benefit management business has a complex and somewhat sordid history, which has drawn the ire of regulators.
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Jul 17 2024

Trump and Vance and Russia and Ukraine

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
A few thoughts on the Republican ticket and our most significant foreign policy challenge.
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Jul 16 2024

Little Timmy’s Wonderful State for Families

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota has a high school graduation rate below the national average and below most southern states. We know why.
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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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Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 2026
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
March 4, 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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