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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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Dec 02 2025

Tim Walz Shows the Whole World Why He Is the Incompetent Blowhard

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Our Governor is a lying charlatan who hides between a fantastical spewing of words in an angry tone.
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Dec 01 2025

Wind Power Creates Serious Environmental and Climate Issues

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Offshore wind farms substantially affect the ocean environment and the life in and on oceans.
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Nov 30 2025

Minnesota’s Rampant Somali Fraud Goes National; a Somali Tells the Truth

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Kind of difficult to pretend that Minnesota doesn't have a Somali culture of fraud problem.
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Nov 29 2025

Debussy Biography

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Claude Debussy is one of my favorite composers and I found an informative biography.
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Nov 29 2025

Another Week or so of the Anti-Strib

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yep, yet another in our never-ending series to shed light on the follies of our local Dem mouth organ.
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Nov 28 2025

US Debt Auctions, Thanksgiving Week 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Recent US debt auctions raise red flags regarding buyers willingness to keep purchasing.
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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

A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 2026
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

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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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