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Oct 14 2025

Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Reviews of the evidence for effectiveness of flu vaccines are dated. And effectiveness appears to be fairly limited.
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Oct 13 2025

Personal Income Growth Among Sub-Groups

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Over the last two decades, it appears that household income has grown more rapidly in low-income households, but this has had a minor impact on perceptions of income and wealth…
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Oct 12 2025

Price Differences for the Same Health Service in Different Settings

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospitals are using their market and lobbying power to force payers to reimburse them at a higher rate than surgi-centers receive.
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Oct 11 2025

Mark Twain

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new Ron Chernow biography of Mark Twain is informative and enlightening.
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Oct 10 2025

Another Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending Study

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An innovative paper using military members examines factors behind geographic variations in health spending.
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Oct 10 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of October 6, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A mixed week for the ever-mounting US debt sales.
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Oct 09 2025

Another Potential Adverse Effect from Medications

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Use of prescription drugs can alter the intenstinal micro-biome.
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Oct 09 2025

Another Dem Hellhole State

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I visit another Dem run-state that is in significant decline.
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Oct 08 2025

Second Quarter 2025 Venture Capital Activity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Venture capital and private equity activity continued to sort of limp along through the first half of 2025.
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Oct 08 2025

What Is “Autism” and Are There Variants of the Condition

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
An interesting study looks at differences in children diagnosed as "autistic" at different ages.
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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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