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Jun 30 2023

More Head-Scratching Economic Stats

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Two crucial economic numbers are showing the widest divergence in decades. Who knows what is really going on.
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Jun 29 2023

Hailing Renewable Energy

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Mother Nature shows her respect for a renewable energy source.
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Jun 28 2023

And You Thought I Was Kidding

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota is a sick, sick state.
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Jun 27 2023

A New Candidate for Dumbest Piece of Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A piece of such obvious partisan hackery should never be published, but in today's environment it is created with open arms.
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Jun 26 2023

Minnesota’s Inevitable Decline Is Just Beginning

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More evidence of Minnesota and Minneapolis' decline.
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Jun 26 2023

Happy Late Fathers’ Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Fatherlessness is a real epidemic with horrifying consequences; it is also morally despicable.
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Jun 24 2023

What Systemic Racism in Law Enforcement?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota is racist in law enforcement all right--one group largely gets a free pass despite disproportionately being responsible for criminal activity.
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Jun 23 2023

A Visual Look at Our Fiscal Quandry

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Maybe seeing how bad our deficit and debt are will make a difference, but I doubt it.
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Jun 23 2023

How to Lie With Graphs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Environmentalist loonies caught with another of their graphing tricks in regard to ice loss.
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Jun 23 2023

The Earth Is Burning Up and There is Drought Everywhere

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Contary to what you might read, there is nothing unusual about recent dry spells.
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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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