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Apr 27 2021

Vaccination Update, April 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An update on vaccination progress. It is good, but slowing.
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Apr 27 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More year-over-year charts, some interesting insights.
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Apr 27 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 53 (Episode Title: Dr. Osterholm Responds)

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
An interesting email exchange and some research summaries.
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Apr 26 2021

Let Us Return to How a Certain Country is Doing

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
There was a different way, as Sweden continues to demonstrate.
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Apr 25 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 52

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Another horrible coronavirus briefing and getting fully caught up on research summaries.
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Apr 24 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 51

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A set of vaccination heavy research summaries.
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Apr 24 2021

False Positives in Testing

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Widely testing students who show no symptoms leads to nothing but false positives and unnecessary quarantines and school closings.
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Apr 24 2021

Dr. Osterholm Is Out of It

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Dr. Osterheimlich's doomsday prediction was astoundingly wrong, but he is our top expert on the epidemic?!!?
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Apr 22 2021

Joe Biden’s Worst 100 Days

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
The country is sinking fast and will likely soon be beyond repair, to the delight of Putin, Xi, the mullahs in Iran, and the knuckleheads in North Korea.
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Apr 22 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 50

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More adaptive immunity and vaccine related research, with a couple of other topics thrown in.
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Apr 21 2021

Corona-Recapitulation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 18 Comments
Once more, an attempt to see the bigger picture.
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Apr 20 2021

Boycott the Twins

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
The rule of law is the singular distinguishing factor in the unparalleled success of the United States. That rule and an even-handed system of justice are being submerged by ideologues…
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Apr 20 2021

A Travesty and an Injustice

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A day of deep injustice that should cause enormous anxiety in the country.
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Apr 20 2021

LTC and non-LTC Deaths, April 17 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Watching the LTC to non-LTC death ratio gives us a good hint on the effectiveness of vaccines.
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Apr 20 2021

Active Cases, April 17 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another active cases update.
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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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This isn’t really surprising, given what you can see in employment and other reports.  Minnesota is one of the state’s viewed as having a bad economy, one that is either...
December 23, 2025
Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
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

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