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Dec 19 2021

How About Some Health Care for a Changeup?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A couple of health care related research summaries.
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Dec 18 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 71

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Almost caught up on the research, such as it is.
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Dec 17 2021

Two Quick Hits

By Kevin Roche Commentary 18 Comments
Pro sports' CV-19 problems are emblematic of the nation's and a woke left periodical discovers how bad CDC research on masks is.
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Dec 16 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 70

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Oh joy, two sets of summaries in one day.
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Dec 16 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 69

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The usual vaccine-heavy round of research summaries.
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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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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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Another company whose valuation I don’t understand, Oura Health which makes the ring that supposedly tracks all kinds of health-related data for people, is acquiring a company called Counsel Health...
November 10, 2026
Cencora, formerly Amerisource Bergen, a large drug wholesaler, is acquiring a greater equity stake in American Oncology Network.  All three of the major drug wholesalers have interests in oncology companies....
October 22, 2026
There is some weird angle here, as Angle Health raises $600 million in a new capital round, but it appears some of it is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders....
September 22, 2026
More AI craziness in health care.  A company called H1 is buying Defacto Health for God-knows how much money.  Both companies claim an AI background and to help with “provider...
September 11, 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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