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Sep 15 2020

How Crazy Is Death Reporting?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Virginia illustrates how screwed up CV-19 death reporting is and what a misleading picture is created.
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Sep 15 2020

Three Recent CDC Studies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Two recent CDC studies will be widely mis-reported and a third likely ignored.
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Sep 15 2020

Midwest Cases Are “Soaring” Says the NYTimes. Really?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Charts on the non-existent Midwest state case surge.
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Sep 14 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus, Part 90

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Some encouraging developments and a few interesting pieces of research.
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Sep 14 2020

Another Example of Mask Effectiveness

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Masks have been enormously effective in Israel, but not at stopping transmission, so they must be effective at something else.
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Sep 14 2020

Damage from the Attempts to Mitigate or Suppress Virus Spread

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Repeat after me, lockdowns, etc. will kill far more people than CV-19.
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Sep 14 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 89

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Why not start the week with a few more research summaries.
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Sep 13 2020

Another Quick Word on PCR Testing

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Putting the PCR testing issues in context is useful and important. Why aren't we getting the data?
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Sep 13 2020

The Current Epidemic Recapitulation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
What DO we know about coronavirus and the course of the epidemic?
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Sep 12 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 88

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A cool, grey weekend day in Minnesota, perfect for reading a few research summaries.
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Sep 12 2020

Another Nice Graph on Cycle Number and Positivity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More illustrations regarding cycle number, culture results and real cases of infectiousness.
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Sep 12 2020

Risk of Death from CV-19 and Age

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
This chart helps understand the relative risk of coronavirus deaths and other deaths for various age groups.
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Sep 12 2020

CV-19 and Risk

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
As we never tire of pointing out, for the general population the risk of death from CV-19 is incredibly low.
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Sep 11 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 87

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
On and on we go with research summaries.
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Sep 11 2020

France’s Case Surge and Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
France is an interesting example of futile mask mandates and case surges without accompanying deaths.
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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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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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