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Aug 15 2021

Our Uber Incompetent and Embarrassing Government

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Recent world events again reveal how pathetically incompetent and ideologically bankrupt the current administration is.
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Aug 14 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Vaccines, vaccines, vaccines, is your whole life vaccines? No, we actually cover some other research as well today.
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Aug 12 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Another vaccine-heavy set of summaries, but some other interesting research thrown in.
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Aug 11 2021

You Can Hear Me Today

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
I will on the Dennis Prager show at 1 pm central.
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Aug 11 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
Much of the research continues to focus on vaccines, breakthrough infections and Delta.
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Aug 11 2021

Breakthrough Infections in Minnesota, August 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
We will begin tracking breakthrough data in Minnesota as best we can. Here is an initial set of charts.
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Aug 11 2021

Hospitalizations in Recent Weeks

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A table showing recent weeks' hospital admissions.
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Aug 11 2021

Animation of Cases by Week by Age Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It is interesting to watch for changes, if any, in the proportion of cases by age.
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Aug 10 2021

Reinfections, Breakthrough Infections

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Doing my best to understand both reinfection rates after an initial CV-19 infection and breakthrough infections following vaccination.
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Aug 09 2021

Masks, on Children Especially

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Once more after the mass(k) delusion, particularly as used to torture millions of school children.
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Aug 09 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 20 Comments
Catching up with a few observations and some quick research summaries. More detailed ones on a couple of important studies coming.
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Aug 08 2021

Japan, that Wonderful Exemplar of Masking

By Kevin Roche Commentary 17 Comments
Japan masks up but it makes no difference to the coronavirus.
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Aug 08 2021

A Lot of Things Are More Deadly to Children than CV-19

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
CV-19 is not a major cause of death for children.
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Aug 08 2021

CV-19 and Young Persons, August 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at CV-19 in children in Minnesota.
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Aug 08 2021

Percent Change in Cases Per Week Per Age Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An interesting chart to see if cases are increasing or decreasing at different rates among different age groups.
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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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Speaking frankly, Candid Health looks like one of those companies we don’t need in health.  It claims to have new revenue cycle management software that is heavily driven by AI...
July 27, 2026
Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 2026
InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 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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