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May 25 2018

Shockingly, Drug Manufacturers Will Do Anything to Block Competition

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Its not really shocking, but depressingly expected for drug companies to screw the public by preventing competition.
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May 24 2018

2018 Milliman Medical Index

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another Milliman-related post, this time for their annual cost of health insurance report, which shows ongoing growth.
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May 23 2018

Where Does Your Health Insurance Dollar Go?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
America's Health Insurance Plans release a study conducted by Milliman showing where commercial health insurance dollars go.
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May 22 2018

Trials for Precision Medicines

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
New "precision" medicines are being approved with fewer and small trials, which may raise safety questions.
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May 21 2018

Medical Spending for Retirees

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A paper from the NBER discusses the lifetime out-of-pocket medical expenses households with persons over 70 face.
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May 18 2018

Research on the Value of Mobile Diabetes Apps

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A brief from AHRQ summarizing research on mobile apps for diabetes management finds little value in improving health.
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May 17 2018

The Value of Public Health Expenditures

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study in Health Affairs finds small benefit from public health expenditures.
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May 16 2018

Hospital Market Power and Pricing

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Today we look at a recent paper that once again correlates hospital market power and prices, a major cause of excessive health spending.
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May 15 2018

Comparing US Health Prices to Those in Other Countries

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Today's price post discusses another KFF/Peterson work which analyzes prices and utilization across countries.
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May 14 2018

Health Care Price Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It is health care price week, and we start off with a Peterson/Kaiser Health System Tracker piece on price trends over the last few decades.
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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

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
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
March 4, 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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