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Oct 25 2024

Transgender Insanity

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A transgender ideologue refuses to publish a study showing the lack of benefit of the drugs she prescribes to children to make money.
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Oct 24 2024

Interest Rates and More on Minnesota Jobs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota's only source of job growth is government and interest rates on US debt continue to soar.
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Oct 23 2024

Minnesota Jobs and Employed Persons

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Federal data suggests Minnesota is adding jobs but has fewer employed persons--the likely explanation is more people holding multiple part-time jobs.
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Oct 22 2024

Our Prescription Drug Market Is Not a Free Market

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An article in the NEJM buttresses my view that prescription drugs don't operate in a free-market because of the monopoly granted by patents.
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Oct 22 2024

Telemedicine

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Telemedicine access had little impact on most aspects of health care delivery.
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Oct 21 2024

I Am Really Tired of the Masking Stuff

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another masking research review tries to pretend that there is any actual data showing any benefit of masks in suppressing community spread.
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Oct 20 2024

Global Warming Is Not Accelerating, Human Caused Global Warming Is Non-existent

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study in Nature, of all places, finds no acceleration in warming over the last 50 years, buttressing the likelihood everything we are seeing is a natural cycle.
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Oct 19 2024

Woke Art

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The Portland, Maine art museum is a prime example of the ignorance of woke ideology.
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Oct 19 2024

Watch Out for Consumer Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Consumers are maxing out on credit card debt.
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Oct 18 2024

Minnesota’s Population Woes Continue

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The latest Census Bureau data on state-to-state migration shows Minnesota continuing to lose residents.
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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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