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Jul 30 2025

The July 2025 JOLTS Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The labor market is looking pretty stable right now.
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Jul 30 2025

US Debt Auctions, Week of July 28, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Largely shorter-end sales of US debt this week, which generally went off okay.
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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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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

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
InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 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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