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Sep 13 2024

Mental Health by Political Preference

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Especially for young women, buying into whacko leftist ideologies is a recipe for having mental health problems.
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Sep 13 2024

Interest on the US Debt

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The federal debt interest payments are taking over the federal budget and will cause immense pain in the near and long term.
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Sep 12 2024

Deaths in the United Kingdom

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Identifying what happened with mortality and death rates before and after the epidemic is complex, as a study from the UK demonstrates.
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Sep 11 2024

Inflation, Interest Rates and Domestic Migration

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Inflation is higher than desired and will stay that way and interest rates will remain high as well. Smart people move to low tax, low cost states.
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Sep 09 2024

Climate is Complex

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Natural processes and cycles are responsible for almost all the variation in global weather and climate parameters.
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Sep 08 2024

A Few Election Ramblings

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
We are two months away from a truly critical election for the future of the country.
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Sep 07 2024

I Am Done with Coronamonomania, Part 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Interesting research keeps getting published, so I keep reading it and writing these summaries.
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Sep 06 2024

August Jobs Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The August jobs report will likely be revised downward and is a mixed bag.
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Sep 04 2024

The Latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The JOLTS report for July was pretty bad.
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Sep 04 2024

Little Timmy Walz, Demagogue

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Our governor is showing his worst side, well, really, his only side, on the national stage. He is a lying, demagoguing totalitarian.
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Sep 03 2024

I Am Done (not) With Coronamonomania, Part 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another round of summaries from the ongoing CV-19 research.
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Sep 02 2024

Venture Capital Activity in 2024 Second Quarter

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The venture capital cycle is no running at optimal speed, with likely adverse effects on the economy.
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Aug 31 2024

Tim Walz, the Gift that Keeps on Giving

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
People in Minnesota are delighted to see Little Timmy get portrayed as he really is--a small, shallow person who has to inflate his life accomplishments and lie about everything.
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Aug 30 2024

Tim Walz, Education Governor

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The latest test and attendance ratings demonstrate how much damage fake teacher of the year Timmy Walz has done to students in Minnesota's schools.
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Aug 29 2024

Another Quick Note on the Week’s Treasury Auctions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The US Treasury is playing games with debt issuance, trying to avoid the collapse of the market for anything with a five year or longer term.
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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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Happy Health is ecstatic to raise $75 million in new capital for its home health monitoring platform, which helps manage sleep apnea and other problems.  We will see how ecstatic...
August 20, 2026
DocGo, a provider of medical transport services and “mobile” health, is acquiring Hicuity Health, which offers “virtual” care services.  To show you what great investments many of these health care...
August 18, 2026
Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 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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