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May 17 2024

Provider and Health Plan Consolidation and Health Prices and Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Consolidation among and between health care providers and health plans has raised prices and does nothing to improve access or quality.
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May 16 2024

Weekly Economic Commentary

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The economy is drifting downward as Bidementia has reached the limits of what excessive government spending can do to prop it up.
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May 13 2024

Immigration Is Complex

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Legal immigration by certain people is highly beneficial; what we are currently experiencing in our country isn't.
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May 12 2024

Minnesota’s Health Assessment

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from the Minnesota Department of Health on our health system is typical woke, racist nonsense.
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May 11 2024

Wind Farms Will Save Us All

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
At some point it will be obvious to everyone that "renewable" energy isn't and certainly isn't environmentally friendly.
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May 10 2024

Why Minnesota Is Attracting So Many New Residents and Businesses–Not

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Minnesota is driving people and businesses out with an extremely high state and local tax burden.
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May 10 2024

The Week in Economics and Finance

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
US debt auctions went off okay this week, unemployment claims were up and consumers are stressed.
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May 09 2024

Teens and Cell Phones

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another piece of research shows the huge benefits of keeping smartphones out of schools.
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May 08 2024

Specialty Drug Pricing

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
One substantial cause of high and growing health care spending is the cost of specialty drugs, particularly when delivered in a hospital outpatient setting.
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May 07 2024

Venture Capital in 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The venture capital community is still struggling with exits and poor investments.
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May 06 2024

Drug Spending and Pricing

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
US drug spending remains high, with more expensive drugs continuing to come on the market particularly for weight loss and cancer.
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May 04 2024

Too Much Research on Everything, So Some Quick Hits, First on Climate

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I have too much stuff sitting around so just going to try to quickly clear some out.
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May 03 2024

Jobs in April

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A jobs report disappoints to the downside for once, but who knows how reliable the data is.
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May 02 2024

A Couple of Pretty Obvious CV-19 Findings

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We are relearning a lot of basics about respiratory viruses that were forgotten during the epidemics.
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May 01 2024

All the Economic News that Fits, or Gives You Fits

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The underlying rottenness of the US economy continues to poke through and is getting harder for the administration to hide.
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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

Headlines

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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