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Feb 14 2025

Yesterday’s 30-year US Bond Auction Did Not Go Well

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Warning signs aplenty if Congress does not get its act together on deficit reduction.
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Feb 13 2025

Reciprocal Trade Barriers

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Trump's imposition of reciprocal tariffs is briliant, exposing the hypocrisy of other countries that have far higher trade barriers than does the US.
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Feb 12 2025

We Are Truly F**ked

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A bad inflation report, a bad deficit report, a bad ten-year US note auction; Trump got handed a complete bag of shit by Bidementia.
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Feb 12 2025

Private Equity Ownership and Health Care Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Financial investor ownership of health care providers results in higher prices.
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Feb 11 2025

A Good Three-year Auction

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A very strong three-year US debt auction today.
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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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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

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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