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May 17 2021

Cohort Analysis, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The cohort analysis, stable to declining rates of deaths and hospitalization, variants clearly don't cause more severe illness.
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May 17 2021

Average Age of Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The average age of cases in Minnesota has fluctuated a bit during the epidemic.
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May 16 2021

What Comes Next

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
It is time to end the excessive attention to CV-19 and move back to pre-epidemic life.
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May 16 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 67

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Research summaries on the usual topics and real freedom may be breaking out around the country.
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May 15 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 66

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
End-of-week observations and research summaries.
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May 15 2021

No, the Vaccines Don’t Alter Your DNA

By Kevin Roche Commentary 15 Comments
Please, please, please don't buy into the conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccines modifying your DNA.
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May 14 2021

Health Care Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Health care spending is likely to rise sharply in the next couple of years.
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May 13 2021

No More Mask Mandate!!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 18 Comments
NO MORE MASK MANDATE!!!!!
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May 13 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 65

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
More research to catch up with.
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May 12 2021

More Detail on Hospitalizations in Younger Age Groups

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
More charts showing the true state of hospital use by younger age groups.
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May 12 2021

More Evidence of Masks Working, or Not

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
An interesting comparison of mask-mandate and non-mask mandate states.
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May 12 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Bouncing around on an airplane and still getting off some research summaries.
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May 11 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 63

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A quick set of research summaries, more later and another set of charts.
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May 10 2021

The India Panic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
India has a lot of cases and deaths, but isn't close to what the UK experienced.
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May 10 2021

Age-Adjusted Deaths, Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A chart of deaths by state, adjusted for population age-structure, is revealing.
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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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IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 2026
A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 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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