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Jan 09 2026

Employment Report for December 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The last employment report covering 2025 is not great, not awful.
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Jan 08 2026

Minnesota’s Baffoons Can’t Stay Out of the News

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
There is a massive, well-funded, extreme leftist organization behind the ICE interference and other actions to impede the current Administration.
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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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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

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
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

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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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