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Nov 02 2025

Prostate Cancer Screening

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The medical community regularly engages in sexism directed at men and negligently dropped recommendations about regular PSA screening, which led to more deaths from prostate cancer.
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Oct 31 2025

Two Weeks of the Anti-Strib, Halloween Edition

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Please, make the pain go away, it really hurts to read this non-journalistic newspaper.
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Oct 31 2025

Post-acute Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Medicare Advantage lowers the use of post-acute care while improving outcomes.
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Oct 31 2025

Health Affairs, October 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The October issue of Health Affairs looked at Medicare Advantage, private equity ownership of providers and vaccine efficacy, among other topics.
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Oct 30 2025

Where Trump Isn’t Getting Enough Credit

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Trump's efforts at bringing an end to conflicts around the world and at ridding the US of foreign-supplied fentanyl and other illegal drugs are highly laudable.
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Oct 29 2025

An Addendum to the US Debt Auction Post

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Federal Reserve doesn't control interest rates that matter any more.
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Oct 29 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, October 29, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Extinction rates have slowed, not increased, in recent years.
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Oct 28 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of October 27, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A generally mediocre week of US debt auctions.
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Oct 28 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, October 28, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another study debunks the allegedly critical role of CO2 in climate and temperature.
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Oct 27 2025

Q3 2025 Venture Capital Activity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Private equity and venture capital are the engine of America's economic growth and are moving along at a moderate pace.
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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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