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Dec 12 2025

Samuel Adams

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Samuel Adams was a leading, but underappreciated, inspiration to American independence.
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Dec 12 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of December 8, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another mediocre week of US debt sales, with clear signs that the Federal Reserve does not control longer-term rates.
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Dec 10 2025

The FDA and Cell Therapies and Health Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A new approach to cell therapy approvals by the FDA will raise prices.
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Dec 10 2025

Gender Ideology Insanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Gender ideology is ruining the lives of many vulnerable children for the sole purpose of enriching medical professionals.
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Dec 09 2025

A JOLTS Report—Yeah!!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The renewed JOLTS data suggests a pretty stable employment market.
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Dec 09 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, December 9, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Most CO2 in the atmosphere comes from natural outgassing processes, driven by temperature changes, not the reverse.
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Dec 06 2025

Another Garbage Piece of Climate Research Bites the Dust

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A completely garbage study on global warming's economic toll has to be retracted by Nature.
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Dec 05 2025

Vaccine Effectiveness

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
RFK, Jr.'s irrational, and financially motivated, war on vaccines, prompts an over-reaction by vax advocates, who exaggerate respiratory virus effectiveness.
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Dec 03 2025

Need More Reasons to Keep Your Kids, and Yourself, off Smartphones

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Smartphones and social media are incredibly damaging to children and adolescents.
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Dec 03 2025

Why Do Respiratory Virus Vaccines Lose Effectiveness so Fast?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
CV-19 vaccines have horrible effectiveness records over any reasonable length of time.
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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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