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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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Apr 08 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yet another wind-down post in regard to epidemic research.
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Apr 07 2024

The Duke

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
My latest adventure in biography-land is the iconic American western actor John Wayne.
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Apr 06 2024

The Weekly Economy News

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The true state of the foundations of our economy is pretty rotten. Deficit spending and illegal immigration can only provide fodder for fake statistics for so long.
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Apr 05 2024

What Conditions Account for US Health Spending?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The Bureau of Economic Analysis releases interesting data on health spending by condition.
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Apr 04 2024

The Enormous Costs of “Renewable” Energy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Enormous amounts of government spending is being wasted on expensive and unreliable "renewable" energy production and consumers' bills will soar.
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Apr 03 2024

DEI and Business Success

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
There is no solid research that DEI, particularly hiring and promoting people on the basis or race, sex and other characteristics, makes a business perform better.
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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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IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 2026
A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 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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