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Dec 17 2023

A Couple of Health Care Related Items

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Two recent health care related studies reflect ongoing issues in regard to Medicare and market concentration.
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Dec 16 2023

National Health Spending in 2022

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Medicare actuaries release their annual report on national health spending.
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Dec 15 2023

Racism and Segregation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Identity politics is destroying our country and society and increasing discrimination.
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Dec 14 2023

Deaths and Life Expectancy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
After a bad period during the epidemic, life expectancy turned higher in 2022, but there is serious inequity in regard to men.
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Dec 13 2023

There Is No Voter Fraud……

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A survey suggests that large amounts of voter fraud occurred in the 2020 election.
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Dec 13 2023

Medicine Goes Whacky

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Canada leads the way, but the US is not far behind, in turning medicine into a woke disaster.
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Dec 12 2023

Antarctica Is Melting, Melting I Tell You

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Ice mass changes in Antarctica are small and primarily driven by natural weather cycles, not human activity,
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Dec 11 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 232

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another potpourri of research related to the epidemic and the response thereto.
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Dec 08 2023

Another Look at Health Care Inflation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An update on national health spending and price increases.
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Dec 07 2023

Minnesota’s Gift to the Country and the Republican Party

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Fat Timmy gets a new role in which to spread his lies and insane policies.
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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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