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Oct 27 2023

More on the Health Care Inflation Mess

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Others share my opinion that BLS is understating health care inflation.
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Oct 25 2023

More on the Health Care Spending and Inflation Picture

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest Altarum briefs show continued growth in health spending and relatively low price growth, which cannot be sustained.
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Oct 24 2023

Dementia Prevalence Is Rising Along with Treatment and Other Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Dementias are the leading health care condition in terms of cost and place multiple other financial burdens on patients.
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Oct 23 2023

Minneapolis Is the Poster Child for What Pro(re)gressives Have Done to Cities

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minneapolis is a typical example of what happens when cities adopt dumb progressive policies.
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Oct 23 2023

More on the Gender Ideology Insanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Gender ideology has no basis in science or research and is destroying children.
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Oct 23 2023

What, There Is a Western Country With Climate Sanity?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from Norway concludes that there is no evidence that temperature trends over the last 200 years are not consistent with past temperature swings.
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Oct 22 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 227

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A vaccine heavy set of research summaries, with further evidence of the damage from lockdowns.
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Oct 20 2023

Hospitalization Trends Early in the Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospitalization trends in the first part of the epidemic reflect substitution of CV-19 for other respiratory conditions and the terror campaign keeping people from getting needed care.
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Oct 19 2023

The Truth About Historical CO2 Levels

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new paper demonstrates that higher CO2 levels result from increased temperatures, not vice versa.
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Oct 19 2023

Remember the Affordable Care Act–the One that Would Make Health Care Cheaper?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Obama's Affordable Care Act has been anything but affordable.
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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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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

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
Color Turquoise Health happy, as it raises $40 million in new capital to support an expansion of its business from price transparency to managing contracts for providers.  Unfortunately the price...
March 18, 2026
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

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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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