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Feb 11 2025

More on Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment and Coding

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The risk formula for payments to Medicare Advantage plans clearly has issues but any changes need to be carefully considered to avoid further bad behavior incentives.
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Feb 10 2025

Karl Marx

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Karl Marx was essentially an idiot whose ideas have been adopted by totalitarians to justify their seizure of total power.
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Feb 09 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, February 9, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest in our irregular efforts to spread climate truth.
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Feb 09 2025

Bob Dylan, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A recent movie on Bob Dylan is worth a watch, but his songs are what really deserve attention.
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Feb 08 2025

Richard Price

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Check out Richard Price's work if you haven't to date.
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Feb 08 2025

Immigrants and Jobs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The worker increase is largely immigrants, but only because we have so many native American retirees and slackers.
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Feb 08 2025

Green Is the New–Well–Brown, Gray, Black, Whatever Ugly Color You Like

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An excellent article summarizes the wonderful environmental impacts of "green" energy.
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Feb 07 2025

Masking Kids Was Futile and Damaging

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The evidence clearly shows that masking children made no difference in CV-19 infection rates.
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Feb 07 2025

The First Trump Era Jobs Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Incorporating major population and job revisions, the report on January jobs is about as expected.
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Feb 05 2025

No Need for More CV-19 Vax Doses

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Studies continue to show essentially no benefit from additional doses of CV-19 vax.
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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

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
There has been a lot of activity lately in the once-hot field of primary care clinics.  Companies going bankrupt, out-of-business, being bought, merging.  Humana, which is now solely a Medicare...
February 18, 2026
Mental health is a very hot health care investment area.  Talkiatry raised $210 million in new capital for its virtual mental health services which utilizes employed psychiatrists, psychologists and other...
February 13, 2026
Investors can take comfort in Solace Health, which provides “advocates” to members in health plans, as it raises a fresh $130 million in capital, which takes its alleged value over...
February 11, 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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