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Jun 11 2025

Minnesota’s Population Problem

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Residents leave Minnesota at a very high rate, especially middle-income working families.
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Jun 10 2025

RFK, Jr. Will Be Next to Go

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
RFK, Jr. can't avoid trying to exercise his whacked conspiracy theory nonsense, which overwhelms the good policies he could prefer.
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Jun 10 2025

Now You Tell Us, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The media that praised restrictions on children during the epidemic now writes articles about how damaging they were.
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Jun 10 2025

Using Real Science for Public Policy

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An under-appreciated Executive Order beefs up the requirements for research to be considered by federal agencies.
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Jun 09 2025

Enrollment Trends Among Large Insurers

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new report gives a perspective on private health plan enrollment trends over the last five years.
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Jun 08 2025

Yet More Lingering CV-19 Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Doing a monthly or so catch up on the research.
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Jun 06 2025

The May Jobs Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A mediocre jobs report for May.
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Jun 05 2025

What Does Ego Plus Ego Equal?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The Trump/Musk rupture was inevitable and came even faster than I expected. RFK, Jr. will be next, as I also predicted. Too much risk of a real health disaster with…
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Jun 04 2025

More Lingering CV-19 Research, May 28, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An irregular round-up of CV-19 research. More to come.
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Jun 04 2025

May JOLT Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest job opernings and labor turnover report has mixed data.
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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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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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