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Jul 14 2023

Private Equity Ownership of Physician Practices

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A report focuses on the price effects of financial buyers owning physician practices.
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Jul 13 2023

More on Health Spending Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An interesting tool from the Health Care Cost Institute allows examination of health spending trends and factors in many urban areas of the US.
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Jul 12 2023

Gender Disaffirmation and Sexual Mutilation, Part VI , What’s It All About

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A summary of what the gender disaffirmation and sexual mutilation of children movement is really all about.
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Jul 11 2023

Gender Disaffirmation and Sexual Mutilation, Part 5 What Should You Do

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Please get involved to protect children and support organizations that are doing the same.
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Jul 10 2023

Gender Disaffirmation and Sexual Mutilation, Part 4, What Other Countries Do

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The United State is an outlier in ignoring the evidence and allowing ideology to justify the sexual mutilation of children.
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Jul 09 2023

Gender Disaffirmation and Sexual Mutilation, Part 3–The Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A review of sex mutilation research finds no benefits and lots of risks.
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Jul 08 2023

Gender Disaffirmation and Sexual Mutilation–Part 2, How Did We Get Here?

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Gender ideology is spread because it makes money for some groups, it leads to political power and because teachers can't teach the basics.
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Jul 07 2023

The Ongoing Saga of Goofy Employment Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Today's job number release from BLS is a slight return to reality.
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Jul 07 2023

Gender Disaffirmation and Sexual Mutilation, Part 1–Background

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
If you care at all about children in the US, you must learn about and fight the transgender insanity.
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Jul 06 2023

Medicaid Annual Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
There is a also a regular commission report on Medicaid.
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Jul 05 2023

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Annual Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Medicare has more than a few issues and the MedPAC annual report identifies them.
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Jul 05 2023

More Doomsday Material, Straight from the Federal Government

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from the Congressional Budget Office shows how dire our fiscal situation is, and our spendthrift Congress is incapable of addressing the danger.
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Jul 04 2023

A Fourth of July Prayer

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Happy Independence Day and spend a moment contemplating your good fortune and how to preserve it for future generations.
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Jul 04 2023

Physician-owned Hospitals

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Physician-owned hospitals charge far less than other facilities, which is likely why they have been opposed.
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Jul 03 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 214

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A holiday treat of more CV-19 research summaries.
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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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Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025

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