Kevin Roche
Healthy Skeptic
The Healthy Skeptic podcast provides general information about health care and the health system. It is produced 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 and may be reached via email at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com
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Episodes
provider consolidation 26.09.2025 5:16
A brief discussion about a recent Government Accounting Office report on health care provider consolidation and its affect on spending and quality
2024 deaths in the United States 19.09.2025 3:07
A brief discussion of the initial report on deaths in the US in 2024
The distribution of health care spending 18.09.2025 5:41
A review of a study examining the spread of health spending in an employee health plan population
Annual Employment Revisons 16.09.2025 4:19
A discussion of the recent BLS release of revised employment numbers for the year ending March of 2025
Inflation measures 15.09.2025 5:46
A discussion of the producer price index and the consumer price index, including the August BLS Releases
autism 09.09.2025 6:30
A brief history of "autism" and the real reason for the increase in prevalence of autistm diagnoses
JOLTS Reports 04.09.2025 7:01
A description of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover report, one of the widely tracked employment reports
US Debt Auctions week of 8/25/25 02.09.2025 4:33
A specific example of some of the US debt auction basics I discussed last week.
money supply basics 28.08.2025 6:35
a brief discussion of the money supply, velocity of money and potential relationship to inflation
US Debt Auctions 25.08.2025 8:27
Some basics on how to track US debt auctions
Employment Numbers and the BLS 20.08.2025 8:24
An introduction to employment number reporting by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Climate introduction 19.08.2025 7:41
A few comments on how we got to the point where climate "science" has become so politicized and fossil fuels so demonized
Medicaid Work Requirements 15.08.2025 6:35
A discussion about Medicaid work requirements and other Medicaid issues
overdiagnosis 13.08.2025 8:06
A discussion of the issue of overdiagnosis, and overtreatment, in medicine
Introduction to Renewing the Podcast 12.08.2025 3:39
I am restarting the podcast, here is a brief introduction to it
test 31.07.2025 0:06
testing
Adaptive Immunity to CV-19 23.11.2020 4:36
a very brief and basic introduction to adaptive immunity and CV-19
some coronavirus numbers 09.05.2020 4:57
call your legislators and tell them to end this insanity
coronavirus status 05.05.2020 6:33
General information available at www.healthy-skeptic.com
Coronavirus basics 05.05.2020 4:57
The website has a ton of information and a google search will get you a lot more. www.healthy-skeptic.com
coronavirus 26.03.2020 4:01
written post at https://healthy-skeptic.com/2020/03/24/drug-rebates/
national health expenditures 26.03.2020 3:19
written post at https://healthy-skeptic.com/2020/03/24/drug-rebates/
drug prices 26.03.2020 3:54
written post at https://healthy-skeptic.com/2020/03/24/drug-rebates/
mental illness and Medicare spending 26.03.2020 3:37
written post at https://healthy-skeptic.com/2020/03/23/mental-health-and-total-spending-in-medicare-patients/
more coronavirus talk 22.03.2020 4:55
written post on the site.
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