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Aug 22 2025

The American Academy of Pediatrics Hates Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The American Academy of Pediatrics is a disgraceful unscientific and woke specialty society, mostly dedicated to making money and hurting children.
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Aug 21 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of August 18, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A muted week for US debt auctions, that went off okay. in the aftermarket, rates are rising.
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Aug 20 2025

Big Employers Are Feeling the Health Price Increase Pressure Too

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Large employers also expect a very large health benefit cost increase in 2026.
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Aug 20 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, August 20, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A warmer world, if it is occurring, is better for humans and other life; a cold spell would be devastating.
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Aug 19 2025

Ukraine and Russia

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
President Trump is doing great work in his efforts at ending wars, but we need to be cautious that we don't enable barbaric dictators.
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Aug 17 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, August 17, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A reformulation of issues about temperature and climate changes provides a good challenge to the hysterical narrative.
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Aug 16 2025

More Evidence of Sharp Health Insurance Price Increases for 2026

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Employer health plans are bracing for cost increases of 10% or more for 2026. The pain will fall largely on employees.
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Aug 15 2025

Podcasts

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Podcasting has resumed.
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Aug 14 2025

Medicaid Work Requirements

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Forcing Medicaid recipients to work or lose coverage has no effect on ER visits or hospitalizations.
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Aug 13 2025

Over-diagnosis in Medicine

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Driven by multiple factors, overdiagnosis is a cause of excess health spending and patient anxiety.
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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

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
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 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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