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Jul 02 2024

JOLTS Gives No Jolt to the Economy

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another untrustworthy labor market report from the Bidementia Administration shows that the only area with strong job growth is government.
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Jun 30 2024

For Those Who Believe the Gender Ideology Bullsh*t

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
New research using artificial intelligence makes it very clear that there are two distinct sexes/genders, with no evidence of a "spectrum".
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Jun 30 2024

More on the Negative Effects of Hospital Mergers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new paper provides further evidence of the harms from hospital consolidation.
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Jun 28 2024

Economic and Debate News

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
I think we all know who will be elected President and it isn't Bidementia. And the economic news continues to be tepid at best.
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Jun 25 2024

The Latest National Health Spending Projections, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital spending is the single highest category of health care cost, followed by physician services.
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Jun 24 2024

More Information on Fake Jobs Reports

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
California's initial job numbers were fake for 2023 and likely so are the whole country's.
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Jun 24 2024

Obesity Drugs Are Expensive and a Lot of People Apparently Don’t Like Their Effects

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The new weight loss drugs have very high discontinuance rates.
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Jun 24 2024

Consolidation in Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Consolidation in health care is really, really bad for consumers.
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Jun 23 2024

Weekend Climate and non-Renewable Energy Funnies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Electric car owners are not all that happy with their purchase.
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Jun 22 2024

Henry Aaron

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
After reading Babe Ruth's bio, I figured I would do the man who overtook his home run record.
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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

Color Turquoise Health happy, as it raises $40 million in new capital to support an expansion of its business from price transparency to managing contracts for providers.  Unfortunately the price...
March 18, 2026
Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 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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