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Dec 18 2025

Is Inflation Easing?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A positive report on consumer prices should ease the affordability concerns being pushed by traditional media on behalf of Democrats.
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Dec 17 2025

Employment Report and Retail Sales

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An employment report and a retail sales report released this week show an economy that is chugging along, not at full speed, but not in any real distress, contrary to…
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Dec 16 2025

More Unifying Actions from the Loving Muslim Community

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
The Muslim religion as practiced by a large proportion of its members is one of the biggest threats to humanity and civilization.
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Dec 15 2025

Another Sign of Minnesota’s Economic Decay

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Minnesota gets a relatively low proportion of its income tax revenue from the top 1%, but its because the rates are so high on middle-income persons.
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Dec 13 2025

Somalis and Fraud in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Let us try to step back and approach the issue of Somali involvement in Minnesota social program fraud rationally.
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Dec 12 2025

Samuel Adams

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Samuel Adams was a leading, but underappreciated, inspiration to American independence.
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Dec 12 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of December 8, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another mediocre week of US debt sales, with clear signs that the Federal Reserve does not control longer-term rates.
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Dec 10 2025

The FDA and Cell Therapies and Health Care Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A new approach to cell therapy approvals by the FDA will raise prices.
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Dec 10 2025

Gender Ideology Insanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Gender ideology is ruining the lives of many vulnerable children for the sole purpose of enriching medical professionals.
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Dec 09 2025

A JOLTS Report—Yeah!!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The renewed JOLTS data suggests a pretty stable employment market.
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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

Included Health wants no one to feel left out, so it is buying Firefly Health, which is attracted to the light of all that money.  Included Health is yet another...
July 29, 2026
Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 2026
Speaking frankly, Candid Health looks like one of those companies we don’t need in health.  It claims to have new revenue cycle management software that is heavily driven by AI...
July 27, 2026
Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 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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