Skip to main content
Healthy Skeptic
search
Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts
  • search
Close Search
Feb 12 2024

Does Anybody Really Know What Is Going On With Jobs and the Economy?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Illegal immigration may be behind a jobs market that appears strong, so you can expect Dems to try to justify it with that.
Read More
Feb 11 2024

Where Does All that College Tuition Go?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Nothing has risen in cost as fast as college tuition and all that money just goes to stoke the woke machine.
Read More
Feb 10 2024

All Tuckered Out

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A few observations about Russia, Ukraine, Putin and Tucker Carlson.
Read More
Feb 09 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A new title, same old boring research summaries on CV-19.
Read More
Feb 08 2024

The Supreme Court’s Supreme Moment

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The Supreme Court is called upon to preserve democracy by preventing the use of legal process to remove candidates from the ballot.
Read More
Feb 07 2024

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Reading the recent biography of Reverand Martin Luther King, Jr. sparks a few thoughts and a lot of sadness.
Read More
Feb 06 2024

DEI in Medicine

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Woke medicine will kill Americans, and the same bizarre ideology is infecting anything to do with science or math.
Read More
Feb 05 2024

Update on Health Spending and Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health care spending growth is accelerating, as is health care price growth.
Read More
Feb 04 2024

A Quick Hit on Federal Debt

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A good post and presentation indicate that 2024 is the year the dimensions of the US federal debt problem will be fully revealed.
Read More
Feb 03 2024

The Latest From the Bureau of Labor Shenanigans

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another fictitious job report is released by the Bureau of Labor Shenanigans
Read More
Feb 02 2024

Coronamonomania Lasts Forever, Part 238

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I don't know how long CV-19 will be a research focus, but it keeps pouring out.
Read More
Feb 01 2024

More From the BEST Initiative on CV-19 Vax Safety

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another BEST study undercuts the wild claims of vax safety nuts.
Read More
Jan 31 2024

The US Has a Health Care Pricing Problem

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Hospitals are putting outrageous markups on certain infused drugs, a great example of how excessive pricing drives US health care spending.
Read More
Jan 30 2024

A Little Plastic Hilarity

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Guess what banning single-use plastic bags really does to the environment?
Read More
Jan 29 2024

Is CO2 Really the Global Warming Culprit?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A new paper finds a much lower climate sensitivity to increased CO2 than they climate hysterics claim.
Read More
  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 59
  • 60
  • 61
  • 62
  • 63
  • …
  • 423
  • Next

✅ Receive notifications of new posts by email.

About this Blog

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.

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

Research

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

Headlines

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

Tags

Access (89) ACO (165) Care Management (268) Chronic Disease (216) Comparative Effectiveness (81) Consumer Directed Health (71) Consumers (514) Devices (168) Disease Management (149) Drugs (605) EHRs (145) Elder Care (149) End-of-Life Care (97) FDA (85) Financings (1843) Genomics (80) Government (357) Health Care Costs (1428) Health Care Quality (616) Health Care Reform (1227) Health Insurance (1116) Health Insurance Exchange (162) HIT (478) HomeCare (76) Hospital (490) Hospital Readmissions (79) Legislation (78) M&A (1723) Malpractice (84) Meaningful Use (105) Medicaid (334) Medical Care (346) Medicare (607) Medicare Advantage (80) Mobile (89) Pay For Performance (92) Pharmaceutical (211) Physicians (569) Providers (252) Regulation (72) Repealing Reform (133) Telehealth (79) Telemedicine (325) Wellness and Prevention (316) Workplace (117)

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.

Categories

  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research

Useful Links

  • Congressional Budget Office
  • Health Affairs

RSS Feed

RSS feed

© 2026 Healthy Skeptic.

  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
Close Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts