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Jul 16 2021

What Is Wrong With Some People?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
The epidemic hasn't brought out the rational best in a lot of people.
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Jul 16 2021

Presentation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
this is the video of my standard epidemic presentation
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Jul 15 2021

Let’s All Stay Calm

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Ignore the ravings of the usual crowd of terrorists and even a few of the un-usual suspects.
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Jul 15 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 91

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
More research for your edification!
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Jul 13 2021

Police and Crime

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Abusing police forces has consequences, but the people doing the most abusing are white progressives and the people suffering the worst consequences are minorities.
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Jul 12 2021

Hospitals, Profits and Doing Good

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Many non-profit hospitals are that in name only.
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Jul 11 2021

The Axis of Evil Strikes Again

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Our local paper commends to our further learning an idiotic book by a member of the Axis of Evil.
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Jul 11 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 90

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Just another day in a paradise, cranking out research summaries.
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Jul 10 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 89

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Not giving up on the research summaries yet, not while Delta terrorism exists.
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Jul 08 2021

Active Cases, July 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Active cases continue to disappear in the state.
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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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