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Apr 22 2024

Medicare Advantage Is at a Tipping Point

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Policy in regard to Medicare needs to be re-evaluated in light of impending insolvency and Medicare Advantage trends.
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Apr 21 2024

Physician Compensation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
An updated look at physician compensation and trends.
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Apr 21 2024

Bill Maher Speaks

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Bill Maher speaks truth to whackos.
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Apr 19 2024

Another Body Blow to Gender Dis-Affirmation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A review from Britain reveals the complete lack of any scientific evidence to support the butchering of children in the name of gender ideology.
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Apr 18 2024

Progress Against Cancer

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The US has made particularly good progress in treating cancer and limiting mortality, but much more can be done.
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Apr 17 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 4, Vax Safety Edition

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A somewhat lengthy examination of recent studies related mostly to vax safety, the results of which will drive the vax safety nuts even nuttier.
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Apr 16 2024

Concentration of US Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Another version of my favorite brief on who is responsible for health is out, with epidemic impact included.
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Apr 15 2024

Climate Hysteria Is Based on Made-up Data, Fast Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
There could be no climate hysteria if not for grotesque data manipulation.
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Apr 14 2024

More Medicare Advantage Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Rates of switching to Medicare Advantage plans accelerated dramatically in the last 15 years and the MA plans generally have lower hospital use for the same condition compared to FFS…
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Apr 13 2024

The Ongoing Climate Follies

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Don't tell the climate hysterics, but alternatives to plastic have higher CO2 emissions.
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Apr 11 2024

More Great US Debt Sales News

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
More bad news for sellers, i.e., the US Treasury, and holders of US debt.
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Apr 11 2024

Is Sanity Returning on Gender Dis-affirmation?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research demonstrates how badly the transgender whackos lie about pimping this garbage on children and adolescents.
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Apr 10 2024

The Economic Numbers Are Getting Too Bad to Hide

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A bad Treasury debt auction yesterday might have influenced by foreknowledge of a higher than expected inflation report today.
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Apr 10 2024

Medicare and End-of-Life Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A Medicare program to improve end-of-life care lowered expenses and allowed beneficiaries to spend more time at home near the end of their lives.
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Apr 09 2024

50 Years of Futile Attempts to Increase Physican Access

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Government policies to increase the number of physicians in rural and other shortage areas have had no impact for 50 years.
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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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