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Sep 17 2024

The Decline of Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Median real household income in Minnesota has declined sharply in Minnesota since 2019, while rising in the rest of the country.
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Sep 17 2024

The Goal of the Pro(re)gressives

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The agenda of the whacked pro(re)gressives is clear--eliminate opponents' free speech, corrupt elections to maintain power and indoctrinate children.
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Sep 16 2024

Racist Anti-racists Are All About the Money

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Anti-racism is an industry that makes a lot of white people very rich.
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Sep 16 2024

Weekly US Debt Auctions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The ever-increasing pile of US debt makes tracking debt auction results very important.
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Sep 14 2024

An Outstanding but Relatively Unknown Writer, Charles McCarry

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The author Charles McCarry was an outstanding writer and prescient in his understanding of what was happening to the United States.
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Sep 14 2024

More Good News from the Federal Government

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Social Security is going broke even faster than previously projected.
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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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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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Another company whose valuation I don’t understand, Oura Health which makes the ring that supposedly tracks all kinds of health-related data for people, is acquiring a company called Counsel Health...
November 10, 2026
Cencora, formerly Amerisource Bergen, a large drug wholesaler, is acquiring a greater equity stake in American Oncology Network.  All three of the major drug wholesalers have interests in oncology companies....
October 22, 2026
There is some weird angle here, as Angle Health raises $600 million in a new capital round, but it appears some of it is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders....
September 22, 2026
More AI craziness in health care.  A company called H1 is buying Defacto Health for God-knows how much money.  Both companies claim an AI background and to help with “provider...
September 11, 2026

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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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