The National Venture Capital Association provides an early look at what 2022 may bring for the industry.
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Rolling along with the research summaries, to what end I am not sure.
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A couple of charts reveal the actual truth--there is nothing "unprecedented" about current temperatures.
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Breakthrough events by age, including percent vaccinated to be able to eyeball vaccine effectiveness.
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Year-over-year charts display the very low level of activity.
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An interesting look at changes in types of deaths over the years by age group. Lockdowns kill.
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While very well compensated, many physicians have less than rewarding job experiences.
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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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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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