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Jun 17 2024

Minnesota Is Not a Healthy State

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota is such a wonderfully healthy state under Fat Timmy Walz that we have one of the highest cancer rates in the nation.
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Jun 15 2024

What’s Up With Cancer Among Adults

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The generation after the Boomers is experiencing higher rates of several cancers and lower rates in a couple. This trend is long-running and unrelated to anything to do with the…
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Jun 14 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yet more studies on CV-19, largely vaccine oriented.
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Jun 13 2024

The US Is Over-run with Crime, but the Whacked Pro(re)gressives Hide the Real Stats

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Official stats say crime is down; everyone knows it isn't, there is just no point in reporting it and violent cities hide their data.
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Jun 12 2024

Bidementia Fiddles with the Economy

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The current administration pulls out all the stops to prop up the floundering economy and convince people prices haven't gone up.
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Jun 12 2024

My Contribution to Pride Month

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
If you are an adult do whatever you want sexually, keep it to yourself, and stop promoting gender and sexual orientation garbage to children.
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Jun 12 2024

The Consequences of Reducing Ship Emissions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Policy changes can have unintended consequences as a reduction in ship emissions demonstrates.
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Jun 11 2024

Weekly Treasury Debt Sale Update, June 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The latest US debt auction was another downer.
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Jun 11 2024

Adverse Heath Events in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesotans are being subjected to a dramatic increase in adverse health care events in hospitals and surgicenters.
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Jun 10 2024

Lot of Murders in Minnesota, Mostly Unsolved

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota's murder rate is increasing dramatically.
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Jun 10 2024

Pity Today’s Young People

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A review of functional imaging studies finds that excessive social media use causes changes in adolescent brains.
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Jun 09 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The epidemic research just drags on and on.
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Jun 07 2024

The Latest Round of Bidementia Job Fictions

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another fictitious jobs report gets headlines, while the more accurate household survey shows big job losses.
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Jun 07 2024

Smoking Dope Makes Adolescents Crazy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Adolescents who use cannibis have an enormously greater risk of developing serious mental illness.
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Jun 06 2024

Goldman Thinks There Is a Supply and Demand Issue for US Debt Too.

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Goldman Sachs thinks supply and demand dynamics will keep US debt interest rates high for some time to come.
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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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