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Aug 03 2022

Health Spending: the Calm Before the Storm

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health care spending growth has been almost nonexistent for a year and a half, due to far lower health care cost inflation compared to general inflation. That is ending.
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Aug 02 2022

Physician Compensation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
An updated report relating to clinician compensation gives you a sense of why US health care costs so much.
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Aug 01 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 157

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Vaccine effectiveness, impacts on children and other nuggets.
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Aug 01 2022

Reinfection Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
DOH finally responds to requests for reinfection data.
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Aug 01 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, July 29

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The ongoing look at the big picture epidemic trend.
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Jul 30 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 156

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another in the endless stream of summaries on CV-19 related research.
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Jul 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 28, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Population rates for different age groups show a continued plateau for events, but we are missing almost all infections due to home testing.
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Jul 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 28, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of basically similar numbers of events, no fall, perhaps a slight increase.
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Jul 30 2022

Wastewater Metrics, July 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another crappy analyis of wastewater levels of CV-19 viral remnants.
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Jul 29 2022

Renewable Energy is a Fantasy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Charts of where our energy actually comes from on a daily basis shows what a fantasy it is to imagine that renewables can meet our needs.
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Jul 29 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 28, Overall Population

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough reporting continues to show little protection against infection and modest effectiveness against serious disease.
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Jul 29 2022

Unprecendented Warmth, My Uhhh, Rear

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
In the current environment of ideological science, it pays to do your own research on what really drives climate trends and what those trends actually are.
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Jul 29 2022

Ukraine Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Russians are masters at dis-information, but the truth is that their military and economy are being devastated by the war in Ukraine. And that is a good thing as long…
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Jul 28 2022

Geographical Variation in Health Spending by Payer

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another study takes a look at variation in spending by payer across geographic regions.
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Jul 26 2022

Emperor Fauci, Lord of the “Science”

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
For whatever reason, the Great Lord Fauci is incapable of keeping his mouth shut and has done a number of enlightening recent interviews.
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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

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GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
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

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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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