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Dec 18 2022

National Health Spending in 2021

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An annual report breaks down 2021 health spending.
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Dec 17 2022

More on the Cooked Employment Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new government report from a Federal Reserve Bank reveals that in fact the federal government has been massively inflating (i.e., lying about) the pace of job creation in 2022.
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Dec 15 2022

Coronamonomania Lasts Forever, Part 181

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Its snowing here in Minnesota, so I am dropping a blizzard of research summaries.
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Dec 15 2022

Just When You Think CV-19 Research Could Not Be Any Worse

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Two recent "studies" remind us that in our current world you have to dig out the truth for yourself, you can't trust message-driven "science" or researchers.
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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts-Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The final set of redone relative risk charts, on deaths.
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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts–Hospitalizations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As with cases, using accurate population sizes introduces massive changes in relative risk numbers for the 65 and over group.
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Dec 14 2022

Relative Risk Charts–Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Relative risk charts, as used by Minnesota DOH, can be another way of showing vax effectiveness, or ineffectiveness.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events, As of Week of December 8, Ages 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated assessment of epidemic events in the age 65 and over subgroup, showing that currently there is very little benefit from vax or boosting.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events As of Week of December 8, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In this age group there also is very little current protection from vax or boosting.
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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events as of the Week of December 8, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The final adult age group shows limited protection of vax and boosting against serious disease.
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Dec 12 2022

RSV in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The massive RSV wave that hit Minnesota's children is a result of the lockdown and isolation policies of little Timmy Walz.
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Dec 11 2022

Breakthrough Events, December 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Same old same old on the breakthrough reports, in terms of raw numbers it is all about the vaxed and the boosted.
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Dec 11 2022

Regional Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A look across the US finds no evidence of any significant CV-19 wave.
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Dec 11 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, December 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The evidence does not suggest we are having a CV-19 wave, notwithstanding some fear-mongering by our esteemed public health officials.
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Dec 08 2022

“Unprecedented Warmth”, or at Least Unprecedented BS

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new study using old DNA shows that Greenland was far, far warmer as recently as a million years than it is today.
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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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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

IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 2026
A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 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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