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Aug 28 2021

Testing in Minnesota, August 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Testing is rising in all age groups as Delta terror spreads.
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Aug 28 2021

Upper Midwest Region Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated regional case trend chart, courtesy Twitter.
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Aug 27 2021

The IB Is Struck by Lightening, Leading to Sudden Blast of Reality

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Our beloved Governor, the inestimable Incompetent Blowhard, pauses the blizzard of words long enough to think for a second, and realizes that we can't suppress CV-19 and will have to…
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Aug 25 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary 25 Comments
A late nite blast of observations and the usual vaccine-heavy summaries.
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Aug 25 2021

Minnesota Breakthrough Infections, August 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A new chart on the proportion of breakthrough cases, hospitalizations and deaths among all such events in Minnesota.
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Aug 24 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
More vaccine heavy observations and research summaries.
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Aug 23 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary 25 Comments
Every day, more and more research and data on CV-19.
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Aug 22 2021

UK Reports

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Summaries of a few interesting reports from the UK.
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Aug 21 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Getting the weekend off with a bang of research summaries.
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Aug 21 2021

Combined Week-over-Week Charts, August 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A combined chart of week-over-week events.
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Aug 21 2021

Week-over-Week Hospitalization Changes, August 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Updated chart on hospitalization week-over-week percent changes.
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Aug 21 2021

Active Cases, August 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Active cases appear to be rolling over, but let's hang on for a week or so.
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Aug 21 2021

Younger Age Group Trends, August 19

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A current look at the epidemic in younger groups reveals how false the nonsense from DOH is.
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Aug 21 2021

Hospital Use, August 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital use is under control, despite what you read.
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Aug 21 2021

Per Week By Age Group Animations, August 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Animated weekly charts of cases, hospitalizations and deaths by age group can help identify trends.
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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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