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Nov 06 2023

Medicare’s Bizarre Physician Fee Schedule Change

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Medicare is cutting physician reimbursement, which is contrary to obvious cost increases incurred by these physicians in providing services.
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Nov 06 2023

Suicide Increases

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Suicide rates among younger Americans have been rising for two decades and the reason is obvious.
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Nov 05 2023

Venture Capital in the 3rd Quarter of 2023

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Venture funding has decreased at a significant pace in recent quarters, but there is a lot of capital available for future rounds.
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Nov 03 2023

Why Worry About a Little Lead?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota DOH is good at terrorizing and it attempts to scare parents about lead in a fruit pouch when they should be worried about the toxic garbage being taught their…
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Nov 03 2023

Ooops, the Labor Statistics Mirages Comes to a Crashing Halt

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Even the BLS can only levitate false job numbers for so long.
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Nov 03 2023

Lies About Renewable Energy Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota's electricity rates are soaring as so-called inexpensive, "renewable" energy replaces more reliable cheap sources of electricity.
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Nov 02 2023

Coronamonomania Lasts Forever, Part 229

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another set of epidemic related research summaries.
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Nov 01 2023

Health Price Variation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another study displays the extreme geographic price variation that exists for the same health care service.
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Oct 31 2023

Some Honest Climate Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Research debunking wild climate and renewable energy claims slips through the cracks and I report it for you.
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Oct 30 2023

Kaiser Family Foundation’s Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A first post exploring the Kaiser Family Foundation 2023 survey of employer health benefit plans.
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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

Happy Health is ecstatic to raise $75 million in new capital for its home health monitoring platform, which helps manage sleep apnea and other problems.  We will see how ecstatic...
August 20, 2026
DocGo, a provider of medical transport services and “mobile” health, is acquiring Hicuity Health, which offers “virtual” care services.  To show you what great investments many of these health care...
August 18, 2026
Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 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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