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Jun 06 2022

Wastewater CV-19 Levels, June 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Not sure what the wastewater analysis is telling us.
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Jun 06 2022

Breakthru Events, 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The final age group, everyone over age 65, where boosters show continuing benefit.
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Jun 06 2022

Breakthru Events, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
On to the middle aged group for our breakthrough event analysis.
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Jun 06 2022

Breakthrough Events, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
On to the 118 to 49 age group, where there appears to be some remaining benefit of vax in preventing hospitalization.
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Jun 06 2022

Breakthrough Events, Ages 12 to 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The next age group for the detailed breakthrough analysis is the 12-17 year-olds.
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Jun 06 2022

Breakthru Events, Ages 5-11

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Breaking the breakthru data into smaller age group posts.
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Jun 05 2022

The Trustees Report on Medicare Funds

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Medicare covers about a fifth of all Americans and the hospital part of the program has an imminent financing crisis.
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Jun 03 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 142

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Summer blossoms as do our ongoing efforts to keep you up on the research.
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Jun 02 2022

Breakthrough Events, From the Omicron Wave Forward

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
During the Omicron wave vaccine performance, including boosters, has steadily trended down, and has basically zero effectiveness in the total population now.
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Jun 02 2022

Breakthrough Events, May 31 Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A more accurate picture than DOH's gives is found in Dave Dixon's charts on breakthrough events.
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May 31 2022

Why Do We Have Uvaldes?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
School schootings are symptomatic of our deeply dysfunctional society and in particular our disregard for the welfare of children, all driven by the lunacy of one political party.
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May 30 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Holiday Edition

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Rainy day here in Minnesota, so why not crank out a few research summaries.
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May 28 2022

Age Structure Charts May 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of age group charts.
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May 27 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 141

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another sprinkling of topics for the regular research summaries.
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May 26 2022

Additional Poop on the Wastewater Situation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some updated wastewater CV-19 levels correlated with cases.
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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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