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Jan 22 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another year-over-year set of charts.
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Jan 22 2022

Age Structure Charts, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The age structure charts show the impact of massive testing in younger groups.
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Jan 22 2022

Younger Age Group Charts, January 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The supposed rise in younger age group hospitalizations is a mirage which DOH refuses to dispell, caused by incidental positive tests.
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Jan 22 2022

National Charts, January 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A national and regional case and death update.
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Jan 21 2022

We Are Slipping Down the K2 Bottleneck of Economic Disaster

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
A gloomy forecast for our standard of living over the next decade and likely beyond.
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Jan 21 2022

Heard of Immunity?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
We have population immunity in the correctly understood sense of the term and the epidemic is over in a rational world.
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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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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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