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Nov 21 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 57

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
A few more research summaries.
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Nov 21 2021

Time for Another Epidemic Summary

By Kevin Roche Commentary 17 Comments
Its long, it may be boring, but hopefully it is somewhat informative and thought-provoking.
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Nov 19 2021

Lies, Lies and More Lies About Child Hospitalizations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Governor's theme song, backed by the DOH chorus, is "All I Wanna Do Is Tell Some Lies".
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Nov 19 2021

Age Structure Charts, November 18

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Updated age series, Governor still lying about cases and hosps in children.
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Nov 19 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 56

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Not of lot of relevant research this week, which seems odd, but here are the summaries of what popped up.
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Nov 18 2021

Drug Overdose Hell

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Young Americans are dying of drug overdoses at a record rate and the federal and our state government are doing nothing to stop it.
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Nov 18 2021

What I Tweeted Last Nite

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
What I say now is the same thing I said at the start of this lockdown and suppression nonsense.
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Nov 18 2021

Case Survival Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
CV-19 is a remarkably non-lethal pathogen for almost everyone.
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Nov 18 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, November 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
We are starting to look kind of like last year, when we didn't have 70% of the population vaccinated.
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Nov 18 2021

Midwest Region Charts, November 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A look around our region finds some similar patterns and a couple of exceptions.
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Nov 17 2021

Another Inane Briefing from Minnesota DOH

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another pathetic briefing, with a focus on school and child terrorism, fact-free as usual.
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Nov 17 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 55

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Your mid-week research summaries for your ongoing epidemic edification.
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Nov 16 2021

For Those Who Think the Vaccines Will End the Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Vaccines are not a panacea to the pandemic. It is all about declaring victory and moving on.
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Nov 16 2021

Reinfection Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Trying to give people a perspective on relative protection of natural infection versus vaccination.
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Nov 16 2021

Week-Over-Week Charts, November 15

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Week-over-week chart shows potential return to upward movement in cases and hospitalizations?
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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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