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Jan 07 2026

JOLTS Report for November 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A labor report for November 2025 doesn't really suggest any particular economic movement up or down.
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Jan 07 2026

Health Insurance and Health Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital costs are far and away the biggest contributor to the rise in medical costs and health insurance premiums.
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Jan 06 2026

Hear Me Speak on Health Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

A reminder, I will be speaking this Saturday, January 10, at 10 am at the Maple Grove Community Center.  The topic will be US health care and health insurance costs.

Jan 05 2026

Good Riddance to Maduro and Walz

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Two of the worst leaders anywhere are gone, and the people whose lives they degraded are celebrating.
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Jan 02 2026

Collectivism? No Such Thing.

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Collectivism is a made-up concept used to justify certain individuals trying to rule all of us.
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Jan 01 2026

Not Sure How to Explain this Interaction

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune replies to an email, which he likely now regrets.
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Jan 01 2026

Happy New Year, We’ll See How Happy We Are at the End of It!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I hope each of you is having a truly warm holiday period and that 2026 brings you many blessings.
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Dec 31 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, December 31, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A couple of new studies provide further undermining of the climate hysterics narrative.
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Dec 31 2025

Additional Employee Health Benefits Information for 2026

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple more reports relating to employer health benefit plans and high cost claims.
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Dec 30 2025

How Concentrated Is the US Health Insurance Market

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A couple of studies examine trends in concentration in the health insurance market.
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Dec 29 2025

Anti-depressant Medications Have a Depressing Number of Side Effects

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Medications for depression can cause a variety of physiological changes, some of which may be harmful.
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Dec 29 2025

Big Sigh, I Hate to Keep Writing about This Topic

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Yet another study finds that the CV-19 vax cannot possibly be associated in any meaningful way, or any way at all, with deaths.
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Dec 28 2025

Cary Grant

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Cary Grant is one of the all-time screen idols.
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Dec 27 2025

A Few Days of the Anti-Strib, December 27, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The woeful Star Tribune unfortunately continues publication.
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Dec 25 2025

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Have a wonderful holiday.
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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

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

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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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