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Jun 13 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of June 9, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A fairly good week for US debt issuance, but rates needed to get buyers are going up.
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Jun 12 2025

Minnesota’s Economy Looking Great, Not

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesota's initial unemployment claims in recent weeks tell us something is not going great.
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Jun 11 2025

Inflation Appears Largely Under Control

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Inflation looks muted and is lower in Republican-run states.
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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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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

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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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