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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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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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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

Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
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

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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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