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Jul 28 2024

More Garbage Research on the Futile Efforts to Suppress CV-19 Spread

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
People are still trying to convince us that lockdowns, masks and vaccines limited the spread of CV-19, even though almost every American has been infected at least once and most…
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Jul 27 2024

More Delightful Economic News

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The usual suspect government economic reports were released.
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Jul 27 2024

I Can’t Explain Fat Timmy Much Better Than This

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
And op-ed nails Little Timmy.
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Jul 25 2024

The US Debt Auctions Are Sending a Message, No One Is Listening

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The size of US debt auctions is creating problems even at the shorter end--wait til you see what happens at the end of summer.
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Jul 25 2024

Preventing Cancer

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Research on behavioral choices that affect cancer risk is likely over-stated.
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Jul 24 2024

People Don’t Work As Much if They Get a Guaranteed Income–Duh!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Giving people money leads them to work less and actually have less total income.
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Jul 23 2024

Unscientific Transgender Garbage

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The most looney-tunes of all pro(re)gressive policies is the transgender absurdity for which there is no evidence, so the whackos make up their own.
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Jul 22 2024

Make the Green Nonsense Stop, I Am Laughing too Hard

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As I keep saying, "renewable, green" energy and climate hysteria are completely fraudulent.
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Jul 21 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Wow, still cranking a few of these summaries out.
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Jul 20 2024

2025 Increases in Health Costs Will Keep Inflation Up

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A PWC report suggests a very substantial increase in commercial plan health spending in 2025, driven largely by price rises.
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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

A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 2026
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

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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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