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Jul 30 2025

Health Affairs, July 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A review of research in the July 2025 Health Affairs issue.
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Jul 29 2025

Trump, Tariffs and Trade

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The trade talks appear to be reaching final stages, with little impact on the trade deficit, but a probably beneficial outcome for the US economy.
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Jul 28 2025

Exaggerated Claims of CV-19 Vax Efficacy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
New research gives a much lower estimate of deaths averted by CV-19 vaccines.
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Jul 28 2025

More Evidence of Harms from Gender Dis-affirming Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another study revealing the evils of gender dis-affirming care and sexual mutilation.
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Jul 27 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, July 27, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
How this can be when we are told the planet is on fire is mystifying, but weather-related deaths are at an extreme low in the first half of 2025.
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Jul 27 2025

An Exceptional Day for the Strib

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An exceptional day of bad journalism even for the abysmal Star Tribune.
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Jul 26 2025

Health Affairs, June 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A review of the interesting research in a recent issue of Health Affairs.
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Jul 25 2025

The Anti-Strib, July 2025 Catch-up, Minnesota News Version

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The local news is just nothing but crime and fraud.
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Jul 24 2025

US Debt Auctions Week of July 21, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A slow week in US debt auctions.
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Jul 24 2025

A Few Days of the Anti-Strib, July 2025, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More critiques of the anti-Trump garbage regularly published in our only and by far worst newspaper in Minneapolis.
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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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