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Feb 15 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 105

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A few more interesting research summaries.
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Feb 14 2022

Who Do Our Health Care Dollars Get Spent On?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A small portion of people are responsible for the vast bulk of health spending in private or commercial health plans.
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Feb 13 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, February 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Our regular update of the epidemic big picture.
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Feb 13 2022

Epidemic Curves, Part Deux

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More work on attempting to define the shape of an epidemic wave.
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Feb 13 2022

Our Cultural Destruction

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
It may already be too late but the fight against wokist indoctrination and social transformation has to be kicked up to a much higher level.
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Feb 13 2022

Our Current Financial State

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
More ill-advised economic commentary.
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Feb 12 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 104

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yay!! I am completely caught up on research summaries for the moment.
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Feb 11 2022

Younger Age Groups, February 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Still no reason for panic in the young age groups and serious illness remains extremely rare.
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Feb 11 2022

Age Structure Charts, February 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The age structure data from the weekly report indicates a sharp fall in events across age groups.
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Feb 11 2022

Event Processing Lags

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Variation in event processing time confounds an analysis of epidemic trends.
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Feb 10 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 103

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines--that is the overwhelming body of research today, with a few oddballs thrown in.
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Feb 10 2022

Getting CV-19 in the Hospital

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A federal database gives a hint as to the substantial fraction of people who actually acquire CV-19 in the hospital.
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Feb 10 2022

Age Structure by Type of Infection

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Proportions of types of infection by age group.
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Feb 10 2022

Case Wave Trajectory

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Do significant pandemic waves have a defined curve?
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Feb 08 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 102

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Another edition of the never-ending research on CV-19 and epidemic responses.
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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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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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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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