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Jun 05 2023

Help, I’m Melting, I’m Melting…..Not

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Antarctica is gaining ice shelf extent and ice mass, not melting and raising sea levels.
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Jun 05 2023

High Cost Medical Patients

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A glimpse at high-cost enrollees in a commercial health plan is revealing.
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Jun 04 2023

A Truly Skeptical Environmentalist

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Scattered glimpses of climate truth are present, if you look. Here is one.
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Jun 04 2023

Racism Is a Problem, Whoever It Comes From

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A poll and a story reflect the woeful state of our society, filled with DEI racists and ignorant ideological clowns.
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Jun 03 2023

More Environmental Misinformation

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Environmentalists lie, period, they lie, all the time, about everything, especially in regard to climate.
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Jun 01 2023

More Examples of Why Health Care Costs Are High

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple of pieces on prices for services in different treatment settings and physician compensation trends.
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May 31 2023

Medical Inflation is Real

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A long-running report on the health care costs of a typical family reveals higher growth in 2023.
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May 31 2023

The Damage from the Epidemic Response

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A great paper summarizes the harms from the epidemic response.
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May 30 2023

Whacko Progressives Really Are Violent Authoritarians

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Research for once accords with common sense, extreme progressives are in fact narcissistic, violent authoritarians.
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May 30 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 212

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A few more notable pieces of research for your late spring edification.
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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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This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 2025
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

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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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