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Feb 17 2021

Seasonality, Seasonality, Seasonality

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
As good a picture as you could ask for of seasonality for CV-19.
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Feb 17 2021

School Openings and CV-19 Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More open schools appears to mean fewer CV-19 cases among children.
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Feb 17 2021

Massive Testing is Pointless and Worthless

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
No correlation between the amount of testing and per capita deaths.
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Feb 17 2021

Lovely Curves of Synchronicity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Take a look at Florida, Texas, Arizona and LA County.
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Feb 17 2021

The Futility of Mitigation Measures

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Futility, thy name is coronavirus mitigation of spread measures.
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Feb 15 2021

Mass Hysteria, Delusion and Panic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 22 Comments
A paper illustrates the government's role in creating the mass hysteria, panic and terror around CV-19.
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Feb 14 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A Valentine's Day drop of research summaries that you will love.
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Feb 13 2021

Biden and Walz Hate Children and Women

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The failure to fully open all schools now is enraging and has no justification. It is done solely in the interest of one party receiving political contributions from teachers.
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Feb 13 2021

Florida Is Awful, Just Awful

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
We give you the facts, you decide. Where would you rather be.
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Feb 13 2021

Age-Adjusted State Death Rates, Redux

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated chart of age-adjusted death rates. Supposedly wide open Florida doing better than uber-lockdown California. And Minnesota for that matter.
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Feb 13 2021

An Updated National Age Group Death Rate Chart

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Just as in Minnesota, nationally the age bifurcation of the epidemic is simply dramatic.
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Feb 13 2021

The Mask Stuff is Getting Beyond Silly

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Germany doesn't look so hot after getting all the praise this spring and summer.
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Feb 12 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Park 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
It is freezing here, not getting above zero for days, but my brain is feverishly working to crank out research summaries.
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Feb 11 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Mask nonsense continues and other research summaries.
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Feb 10 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
More research on the usual topics, plus some acerbic commentary.
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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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