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Feb 29 2024

More on Whacked Child Sexual Identity Mutilation

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
There is no research supporting gender-disaffirming care and sexual mutilation of children, but that won't stop the butchers who make money from this practice or the ideologues who want to…
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Feb 28 2024

Quick Economic Note

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A quick update on economic growth and federal debt auctions.
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Feb 28 2024

CO2 Levels and Temperature

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yet another example of the uncertainty surrounding the supposed prime premise of the global warming hysteria.
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Feb 27 2024

Drug Prices and Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Drug prices remain very high, despite decades of abuse, but heavy lobbying and campaign contributions
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Feb 26 2024

Uh-oh, the Treasury Debt Market is Looking Even Weaker

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Two more bad auctions of shorter term US debt instruments.
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Feb 25 2024

The Holdovers and Tom Wolfe

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
I like good film and it is increasingly hard to find.
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Feb 25 2024

Vaccine Safety

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A large study of vaccine safety finds the usual suspects, in very low numbers.
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Feb 24 2024

Missing Cancer Diagnoses

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another study reveals the impact of epidemic restrictions on cancer detection and diagnoses.
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Feb 23 2024

Excess Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Some interesting work and statistics from England on excess deaths.
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Feb 22 2024

If the Media Reported Actual Research, Everyone Would Know There Is No Science Behind the Warming Climate Scam

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Anyone who actually reads climate papers would quickly conclude that the models projecting warming are completely worthless pieces of shit.
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Feb 21 2024

Latest Treasury Debt Sale Dud

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another wonderful long-term Treasury bond auction sends interest rates skyward.
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Feb 20 2024

Freidrich Neitzsche and Jane Austen

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple of more biographies have been absorbed, to who knows what ultimate purpose.
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Feb 18 2024

Deaths and Excess Deaths.

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another study illustrates the increase in disease burden and mortality caused by delayed care during the epidemic.
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Feb 17 2024

Health Spending in the United States

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An very interesting new report has lots of good graphs representing long and short-term trends in spending.
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Feb 16 2024

No, Virginia, the CV-19 Vax Don’t Cause Issues for Newborns

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A large study from Norway and Sweden finds no risk and some benefit to a newborn from the mother having been vaxed against CV-19.
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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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