Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a physical disaster for that country, but will destroy Russia even more completely.
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A final burst of research summaries to catch up before the start of a new week.
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A study offers red meat to 2020 election obsessives.
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UnitedHealth Group, my former employer, is a health care behemoth. It has pushed aggressively in to the actual delivery of medical care in the last decade and is currently the largest employer of physicians in the country. It now is moving into home health care by purchasing LHC Group for $5 billion. Supposedly these deals will reduce total costs, but I don't believe it, I think they protect profits and profit margins and I doubt they result in better quality either.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/unitedhealth-acquire-home-health-provider-lhc-group-5b-dealA lot of interesting (if you have no life) research, including an important paper on the future direction of CV-19.
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A shocking number of CV-19 hospitalizations are people who got infected in the hospital.
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Another week's update on breakthrough events. Look at the proportion of deaths in the vaxed.
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Very little change in the low plateau of events across all age groups.
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What would we do without the continuing surge of epidemic research?
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My rant for the week is on the absolute garbage about the need for equity to fight mythical systemic racism in health care.
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Actually some pretty interesting research this morning.
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This week's breakthrough events continue to show a predominance of vaxed ones.
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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. 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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