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Mar 01 2024

Yes, Cannibis Is Bad For You

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Yet another study shows the dangers of regular cannibis use, but that won't matter to politicians getting big contributions from the industry.
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Feb 29 2024

More on Whacked Child Sexual Identity Mutilation

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
There is no research supporting gender-disaffirming care and sexual mutilation of children, but that won't stop the butchers who make money from this practice or the ideologues who want to…
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Feb 28 2024

Quick Economic Note

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A quick update on economic growth and federal debt auctions.
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Feb 28 2024

CO2 Levels and Temperature

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yet another example of the uncertainty surrounding the supposed prime premise of the global warming hysteria.
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Feb 27 2024

Drug Prices and Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Drug prices remain very high, despite decades of abuse, but heavy lobbying and campaign contributions
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Feb 26 2024

Uh-oh, the Treasury Debt Market is Looking Even Weaker

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Two more bad auctions of shorter term US debt instruments.
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Feb 25 2024

The Holdovers and Tom Wolfe

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
I like good film and it is increasingly hard to find.
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Feb 25 2024

Vaccine Safety

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A large study of vaccine safety finds the usual suspects, in very low numbers.
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Feb 24 2024

Missing Cancer Diagnoses

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another study reveals the impact of epidemic restrictions on cancer detection and diagnoses.
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Feb 23 2024

Excess Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Some interesting work and statistics from England on excess deaths.
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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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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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