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Apr 02 2022

Hospital-Acquired CV-19

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A shocking number of CV-19 hospitalizations are people who got infected in the hospital.
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Mar 31 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 121

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Yet another set of summaries and news notes.
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Mar 30 2022

Breakthrough Events, March 28, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The updated age structure of breakthrough events.
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Mar 30 2022

Breakthrough Events, March 28, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another week's update on breakthrough events. Look at the proportion of deaths in the vaxed.
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Mar 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, March 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Very little change in the low plateau of events across all age groups.
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Mar 29 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 120

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
What would we do without the continuing surge of epidemic research?
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Mar 27 2022

Bullshit Regarding “Inequities” in Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
My rant for the week is on the absolute garbage about the need for equity to fight mythical systemic racism in health care.
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Mar 25 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 119

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Actually some pretty interesting research this morning.
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Mar 24 2022

Breakthrough Events, March 21, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Breakthrough events by age group.
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Mar 24 2022

Breakthrough Events, March 21, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
This week's breakthrough events continue to show a predominance of vaxed ones.
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Mar 23 2022

More Climate Change Nonsense

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another diversion into the follies of climate science.
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Mar 23 2022

Latest Altarum Institute Health Spending Briefs

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Due to odd pandemic spending patterns, health care spending and price growth is below general growth in those categories.
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Mar 21 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 118

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
More research summaries, heavy on vaccines and the effect of prior infections.
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Mar 21 2022

Are Higher Care Prices an Indicator of Better Quality?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Higher prices for health care aren't associated with better quality.
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Mar 21 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, March 18

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at the year-over-year charts, from which some interesting facts can be gleaned.
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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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Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 2026
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
March 4, 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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