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Mar 08 2024

Health Insurance Affordability

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Health insurance is becoming increasingly unaffordable for small employers.
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Mar 07 2024

Failure to Secure the Border Is Poisoning and Killing Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Failure to secure the border leads to drug overdoses and poisoning of young children.
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Mar 07 2024

Another Suspicious Economic Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
More news that suggests the economy is not exactly humming along.
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Mar 06 2024

Tolstoy and Russia

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another biography down, a giant of Russian and world literature.
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Mar 05 2024

Early Spring Altarum Update on Health Spending and Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another set of briefs on health care spending, utilization and prices.
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Mar 04 2024

Minnesota’s Electricity Supply

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Minnesota electricity generation sources and grid are getting more expensive and less reliable.
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Mar 04 2024

Will There Ever Be a Study Showing Lots of CV-19 Vax Serious Adverse Events?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Here is another study the VSNs can ignore, showing no enhanced risk of adverse events from a CV-19 booster.
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Mar 03 2024

Is Anyone Defending Lockdowns Anymore?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new study finds extensive benefits from Sweden's refusal to join the lockdown herd during the epidemic.
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Mar 02 2024

About that New Zealand Vax Safety Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A far better statistician than I does an excellent job of debunking the vax safety crap regarding New Zealand data.
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Mar 01 2024

Yes, Cannibis Is Bad For You

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Yet another study shows the dangers of regular cannibis use, but that won't matter to politicians getting big contributions from the industry.
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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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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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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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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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