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Nov 11 2025

A Typical Example of Government Lying About Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The government tries to pretend that a train line isn't losing money.
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Nov 10 2025

The Anti-Strib, Up to November 10, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Strib is getting stale, pursuing the same old attack lines on Trump.
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Nov 08 2025

Heart and Circulatory Issues and CV-19 in Young People

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
More heart inflammation and other vascular issues occur following a CV-19 infection than a vax.
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Nov 08 2025

Minnesota’s Continued Descent

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Minnesota's quality of life has gone straight downhill under the rule of Little Timmy Walz and his whacked Dem compatriots.
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Nov 07 2025

Now They Tell Us

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Now that it is too late, the public health "experts" think we should consider the potential harms of epidemic measures like lockdowns and school closures.
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Nov 06 2025

The Information, a Brief Review

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A fascinating history of information and information theory.
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Nov 06 2025

That Old Trump Magic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Trump gets the credit for big Dem wins on Tuesday, but our citizens will suffer from the usual raft of insane Dem policies.
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Nov 03 2025

Comparisons of US and Other Countries’ Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Comparsions with other developed countries reveals that our health spending issue is largely due to higher prices.
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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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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

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
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 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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