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Dec 16 2021

An Interesting Political Event

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Not sure how good an idea it is to get a close up look at the political process.
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Dec 15 2021

Let’s Party, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Due to overwhelming demand, the party will go forward, date and location to be announced.
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Dec 15 2021

Let’s Party

By Kevin Roche Commentary 20 Comments
We have to get past this epidemic and find a way to celebrate that.
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Dec 15 2021

Deaths in Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Most of the very few deaths in children attributed to CV-19 aren't actually due to the virus and the children have significant other illnesses.
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Dec 15 2021

Masks Work, for the 2000th Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Yet more evidence on just how much difference masks make, or should I say don't make.
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Dec 14 2021

Breakthrough Event Proportions, December 13

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Ten thousand new cases in the fully vaxed reported this past week. Yep, epidemic of the unvaxed.
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Dec 14 2021

Rates Among Sub-Groups, December 13

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
An update on relative case rates among the vaxed, unvaxed and prior infected.
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Dec 14 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 68

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
A lot of interesting research and perhaps the mood is changing on living with the virus.
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Dec 13 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, December 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Despite extremely high vax rates, we are seeing the return to case growth in Minnesota.
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Dec 13 2021

Age Structure Charts, December 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Age structure charts say it is all about the old people.
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Dec 12 2021

What We Should Have Learned From this Epidemic, but Probably Won’t

By Kevin Roche Commentary 19 Comments
Humans being humans, we will learn nothing from this epidemic that allows us to respond more rationally to the next one.
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Dec 11 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 67

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Snowbound in Minneapolis, so pumping out research summaries.
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Dec 10 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 66

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, is your whole life vaccines? Well, almost.
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Dec 09 2021

We Have a New Winner in the Stupidest Piece of Research Sweepstakes

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A break from coronavirus because a medical study on another topic triggered my sensitive snowflake reaction to idiocy.
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Dec 09 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 65

By Kevin Roche Commentary 15 Comments
Another in the unending round of research summaries on CV-19, plus the usual off-hand observations.
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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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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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