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May 05 2021

Drug Pricing

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Drug pricing is excessive and hurts consumers, and it is not due to a free market, but to patents.
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May 05 2021

The Race Obsession

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
The racist race obsession, developed by BLM and promoted by the Biden administration and white progressives everywhere, is going to kill this country.
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May 05 2021

Children and Schools

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A quick post focused on children's infections and infectiousness.
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May 04 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 59

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Boston was pretty dead, but here are some observations and research summaries I put together to liven things up on the way back.
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May 04 2021

Cohort Analysis, May 1 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The current cohort analysis, which suggests that hospitalizations are stable as a percent of cases and deaths are declining.
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May 04 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, May 1 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Tracking the epidemic for over a year now, via charts.
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May 03 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 58

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A couple of observations to start the week, but a slow research day.
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May 02 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 57

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
I am sure on a lovely Sunday morning you have nothing better to do than read research summaries, so here they are.
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Apr 30 2021

Age Proportions Charts

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Watching the age group percents for cases, hospitalizations and deaths tells us a lot.
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Apr 30 2021

How Minnesota Makes Epidemic Policy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The IB is caught red-handed trying to make up after the fact justifications for his actions.
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Apr 30 2021

The CDC Knows There Is No Real Evidence to Support Masking Policies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A revealing response from the CDC to a request for data on mask policies.
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Apr 30 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 56

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A light day for research and we were blessed with a second coronavirus briefing this week.
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Apr 29 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 55

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More messaging from the state DOH and some immune response heavy research.
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Apr 28 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 54

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Research keeps coming and I keep summarizing.
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Apr 27 2021

Catching Up on a Lot of Health Care Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A catch up on a year's worth of health research, all of which I can't get to.
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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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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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