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Jan 21 2022

A Couple of Health Care Research Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Some health care related research for a change.
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Jan 20 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 90

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Glimmers of hope, likely only to be crushed by the tanks of Tiananamen Square, also known as the politicians and "experts" who run our epidemic response about as well as…
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Jan 19 2022

Has Minnesota Peaked?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Minnesota may have peaked, but the screwed up data processing of recent weeks makes it hard to say definitively.
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Jan 19 2022

Relative Rates of Infection

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Another chart view of infections among the vaxed, unvaxed and prior infected.
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Jan 19 2022

Breakthrough Proportions, January 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The updated proportion of breakthru events from the weekly data dump.
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Jan 19 2022

One Look at Breakthru Events, January 18

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A huge week for breakthroughs, including a lot of hosps.
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Jan 18 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 89

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Vaccines, infection-derived immunity, masking, we cover it all here.
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Jan 17 2022

What I Said at the Start Is Still Pretty True

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
I went back and looked at my ads from almost two years ago.
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Jan 16 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 88

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Gloomy, cold weekend in Minnesota and the tiresome choir of doing research summaries never seems to end.
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Jan 15 2022

Week-Over-Week Charts, January 14

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Week-over-week charts show big jump in cases, but a potential approach to peak.
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Jan 15 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 87

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Catching up on some research.
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Jan 15 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The updated year-over-year look at the epidemic.
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Jan 15 2022

Age Structure Charts, January 14

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another look at the age structure of events in the epidemic.
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Jan 15 2022

Younger Age Group Charts, January 14

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Reported hospitalizations are up in some younger age groups, but the true reason for the admission won't be released by DOH.
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Jan 14 2022

Another Way to Look at Breakthru Events

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another way to look at breakthru events, based on the Monday data dumps.
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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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