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Feb 14 2022

Who Do Our Health Care Dollars Get Spent On?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A small portion of people are responsible for the vast bulk of health spending in private or commercial health plans.
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Feb 13 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, February 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Our regular update of the epidemic big picture.
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Feb 13 2022

Epidemic Curves, Part Deux

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More work on attempting to define the shape of an epidemic wave.
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Feb 13 2022

Our Cultural Destruction

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
It may already be too late but the fight against wokist indoctrination and social transformation has to be kicked up to a much higher level.
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Feb 13 2022

Our Current Financial State

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
More ill-advised economic commentary.
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Feb 12 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 104

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yay!! I am completely caught up on research summaries for the moment.
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Feb 11 2022

Younger Age Groups, February 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Still no reason for panic in the young age groups and serious illness remains extremely rare.
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Feb 11 2022

Age Structure Charts, February 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The age structure data from the weekly report indicates a sharp fall in events across age groups.
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Feb 11 2022

Event Processing Lags

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Variation in event processing time confounds an analysis of epidemic trends.
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Feb 10 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 103

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines--that is the overwhelming body of research today, with a few oddballs thrown in.
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Feb 10 2022

Getting CV-19 in the Hospital

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A federal database gives a hint as to the substantial fraction of people who actually acquire CV-19 in the hospital.
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Feb 10 2022

Age Structure by Type of Infection

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Proportions of types of infection by age group.
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Feb 10 2022

Case Wave Trajectory

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Do significant pandemic waves have a defined curve?
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Feb 08 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 102

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Another edition of the never-ending research on CV-19 and epidemic responses.
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Feb 08 2022

Breakthrough Events, February 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Our updated look at breakthrough events, a little concerning what is happening in the oldest age group.
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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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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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