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Mar 20 2025

Tim Walz Is an Idiot

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Fat Timmy outdoes hisself again.
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Mar 20 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, March 20, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The EPA's social cost of carbon analysis is of course found to be flawed, probably fraudulent.
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Mar 19 2025

A Good Longer-term Debt Auction

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A strong 20 year US debt auction.
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Mar 18 2025

Mixed Economic News

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Various economic reports and indicators reflect uncertainty.
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Mar 17 2025

Debunking Climate Hysteria, March 17, 2025

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Offshore wind farms are a particularly stupid source of unreliable, expensive power.
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Mar 16 2025

How Altruistic are Doctors?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
"Altruistic physicians are less likely than non-altruistic ones to take drug company money or respond to drug company payments by prescribing more.
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Mar 14 2025

Epidemic Impact on Social Security Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The epidemic helped reduce some Social Security spending but it won't make a real impact.
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Mar 13 2025

Uh-oh, No One Likes Our 30-year Debt

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Long-term US debt auctions are not getting a good reception.
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Mar 13 2025

A Few New CV-19 Studies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Interesting research is still dribbling out, including on the negative effects of lockdowns, etc.
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Mar 12 2025

Economic News Today

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More not so good economic news today, and I am including the supposedly benign inflation report.
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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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Research

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

Happy Health is ecstatic to raise $75 million in new capital for its home health monitoring platform, which helps manage sleep apnea and other problems.  We will see how ecstatic...
August 20, 2026
DocGo, a provider of medical transport services and “mobile” health, is acquiring Hicuity Health, which offers “virtual” care services.  To show you what great investments many of these health care...
August 18, 2026
Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 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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