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Oct 27 2022

Diesel Fuel Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Diesel fuel prices have risen rapidly, contributing to much higher costs for truckers, which raises the price of just about everything.
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Oct 26 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 172, Special Heart Disease Issue

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The rise in heart disease and especially fatal heart attacks is linked to CV-19 infection, but moreso, I believe, to gaps in care and missed diagnoses and stress due to…
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Oct 25 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 171

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few more summaries on some important topics, like bad lockdown effects.
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Oct 25 2022

Comparative Case Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An attempt to assess hospital and death rates as a function of cases in recent months.
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Oct 24 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Uhhhh, Houston we have a problem, the unvaxed are at or below their proportion in the population for cases, hosps and deaths.
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Oct 24 2022

Little Timmy Walz Is a Coward

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
For Little Timmy Walz, lying and incompetence are an ingrained part of his character.
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Oct 23 2022

Health Care Prices and Costs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple of pieces of health care research, one on coming health care inflation and one on supposed administrative waste.
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Oct 21 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 170

By Kevin Roche Commentary 16 Comments
Another debunking the perceived wisdom set of research summaries.
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Oct 20 2022

The Great De-Wokening

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Woke vomitus is poisoning everything in our lives--it must be stopped now.
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Oct 20 2022

Reinfection Data Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A good look at updated reinfection data.
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Oct 19 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 169

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A little slow in catching up but here is a mid-week dose of summaries.
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Oct 16 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 13

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
There are explanatory circumstances, but being unvaxed doesn't appear to raise the likelihood of being infected, hospitalized or dying for the overall population.
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Oct 16 2022

Age Structure Charts, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As you would expect, if there is still an epidemic, it is disproportionately affecting the older groups, particularly in regard to hospitalizations and deaths.
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Oct 16 2022

Age Structure Charts, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Once more for your visual enjoyment, how the epidemic is affecting different age groups.
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Oct 15 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 168

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Halloween is coming, and boys and girls, we have some scary, really scary CV-19 research summaries.
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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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Another company whose valuation I don’t understand, Oura Health which makes the ring that supposedly tracks all kinds of health-related data for people, is acquiring a company called Counsel Health...
November 10, 2026
Cencora, formerly Amerisource Bergen, a large drug wholesaler, is acquiring a greater equity stake in American Oncology Network.  All three of the major drug wholesalers have interests in oncology companies....
October 22, 2026
There is some weird angle here, as Angle Health raises $600 million in a new capital round, but it appears some of it is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders....
September 22, 2026
More AI craziness in health care.  A company called H1 is buying Defacto Health for God-knows how much money.  Both companies claim an AI background and to help with “provider...
September 11, 2026

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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 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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