The US Labor Department continues to spread misinformation on the state of the labor market.
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An initial attempt at calculating national excess deaths.
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Per capita rates of deaths in the US as Dave continues his excellent analysis of excess deaths.
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In an attempt to swiftly revive two floundering health care companies, a PE firm has announced the merger and recapitalization of Revive Health and SwiftMD. You know they are floundering by the description of their businesses. SwiftMD is a "virtual" health company that is also "digital". These buzz words might have once summoned fear but now only loathing. Revive Health offers "integrated" care plans, whatever that is. More floundering to come for these fishy firms.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eir-partners-announces-combination-of-revivehealth-and-swiftmd-through-a-majority-recapitalization-301729155.htmlInvestors have not yet learned their lesson, as Pearl Health gathers a new round of $75 million in capital for its business of supporting physicians who want to participate in value-based care arrangements.
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/andreessen-horowitz-backs-pearl-healths-75m-round-scale-value-based-care-techA revised look at excess deaths and death rates using a ten year baseline.
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A foray into excess death calculations in the entire nation.
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Another vax heavy set of research summaries, still not super-effective and definitely not causing lots of adverse events.
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Immigration is likely beneficial, illegal immigration not so much and it costs far more than any benefts.
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Based on more recent information Dave received from DOH, updated rates of breakthrough and reinfection events.
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A chart shows what a ludicrous fantasy reliance on renewable energy sources is.
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Women are greatly over-represented as college graduates and this is highly inequitable to men.
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In the depths of winter, the summaries continue to flow.
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What was done to our children during the epidemic was atrocious, but one silver lining is the rapid decline of public school attendance which should lead to the end of…
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A few more summaries, which will become scarcer here in future weeks.
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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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