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Mar 27 2024

Funniest Story of the Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Would would have thought that hail could destroy a solar farm? Certainly not the nut-case environmentalists pushing renewable energy.
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Mar 27 2024

What Is Going on in the US Debt Markets?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Treasury seems determined to rely on massive amounts of short-term debt to finance our huge deficits.
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Mar 26 2024

A “Solid” Treasury Auction Shows How Screwed Up this Market Is

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A supposedly solid two year federal debt auction reveals the true state of the market.
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Mar 25 2024

Why the Average Person Knows the Economy Sucks

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Real wage growth is basically non-existent.
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Mar 24 2024

Yes, Jann Wenner Is a You Know What

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A current biography of Jann Wenner confirms what his memoir suggested--he is a jackass.
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Mar 22 2024

The Week in Economics and Finance

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
No matter how much Bidementia pushes out fake economic numbers, the reality is that we are well beyond the tipping point to economic misery for decades.
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Mar 20 2024

The Original Ad

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Here is where to find the text of the original ad I placed in March of 2020.
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Mar 20 2024

Four Years Ago, Events that Caused Immense Damage Began

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Four years ago, the nation likely suffered irreparable damage from the initiation of a futile and untested epidemic response.
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Mar 18 2024

I Am Done With Coronamonomania, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
March madness is here and coronamonomania persists as well.
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Mar 16 2024

“Long” Covid Is Illusory?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another study reveals that "long" CV-19 is in fact mythic.
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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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