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Sep 09 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 19

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Nearing the end of another week of CV-19 BS.
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Sep 08 2021

You Won’t Read About This Study in the Traditional Media

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Another mask study finding no effect from a mask mandate on anything, except maybe to make events go higher.
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Sep 08 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 18

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Back at the research summary grind.
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Sep 06 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
I am fired up about the CDC children's hospitalizations study and other matters, on a holiday no less.
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Sep 05 2021

Week-Over-Week Cases and Hospitalizations, September 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Week-over-week analysis also suggesting we are past the current case peak.
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Sep 05 2021

Active Cases, September 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Active cases are currently signalling we are past the peak of the current bump, but let's be cautious.
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Sep 04 2021

Delta, Breakthrough Infections and the Ongoing Media and Public Health Terrorism

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Focussing on Delta and vaccine effectiveness to try to stem hysteria.
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Sep 03 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Vaccines, obesity, what is linked to infection and variant terrorism in tonight's episode of As the Virus Turns.
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Sep 03 2021

Breakthrough Infections, September 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It isn't easy to figure out what proportion of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Minnesota are due to breakthrough infections.
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Sep 03 2021

Age Group Events, September 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another update tracking testing, cases and hospitalizations by age group.
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Sep 03 2021

Epidemic Overview, September 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
One chart to rule them all.
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Sep 03 2021

What the Epidemic Response Did

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The dumb government responses to the epidemic are killing large numbers of people.
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Sep 03 2021

Which Country Would You Rather Live In?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Sweden has been a beacon of rationality throughout the epidemic and has not suffered disproportionately as a result.
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Sep 02 2021

How to Lie With Statistics and Bad Study Design, Mask Version

By Kevin Roche Commentary 14 Comments
The worst supposed study showing mask-wearing benefits ever is unveiled.
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Sep 01 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 15

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
This just goes on and on and on and on. More research.
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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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