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Jun 12 2024

My Contribution to Pride Month

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
If you are an adult do whatever you want sexually, keep it to yourself, and stop promoting gender and sexual orientation garbage to children.
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Jun 12 2024

The Consequences of Reducing Ship Emissions

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Policy changes can have unintended consequences as a reduction in ship emissions demonstrates.
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Jun 11 2024

Weekly Treasury Debt Sale Update, June 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The latest US debt auction was another downer.
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Jun 11 2024

Adverse Heath Events in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Minnesotans are being subjected to a dramatic increase in adverse health care events in hospitals and surgicenters.
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Jun 10 2024

Lot of Murders in Minnesota, Mostly Unsolved

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota's murder rate is increasing dramatically.
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Jun 10 2024

Pity Today’s Young People

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A review of functional imaging studies finds that excessive social media use causes changes in adolescent brains.
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Jun 09 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The epidemic research just drags on and on.
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Jun 07 2024

The Latest Round of Bidementia Job Fictions

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another fictitious jobs report gets headlines, while the more accurate household survey shows big job losses.
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Jun 07 2024

Smoking Dope Makes Adolescents Crazy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Adolescents who use cannibis have an enormously greater risk of developing serious mental illness.
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Jun 06 2024

Goldman Thinks There Is a Supply and Demand Issue for US Debt Too.

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Goldman Sachs thinks supply and demand dynamics will keep US debt interest rates high for some time to come.
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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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