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Aug 25 2020

A Quick Minnesota Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Musings on Minnesota's non-epidemic.
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Aug 24 2020

Getting “Reinfected” by Coronavirus Is No Big Deal

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Get ready for a wave of panic over a case of coronavirus "reinfection".
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Aug 24 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 74

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Starting the week with cross-reactivity, schools and masks. Same-old, same-old.
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Aug 23 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 73

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Additions to the body of knowledge around coronavirus continue to accrue.
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Aug 23 2020

Reign of Terror, Reign of Error

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The epidemic response has been comprised of two primary elements--frighten the heck out of people and take ill-considered, disproportionate and extremely damaging actions.
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Aug 22 2020

South Korea

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The virus re-emerges in South Korea. Seasonality? Just playing with us?
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Aug 22 2020

Updated Date of Death Analysis

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
I prefer to see deaths by date they actually occurred. The closest thing is the CDC's weekly date of death reports and I update my comparison to Minnesota date of…
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Aug 22 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 72

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Weekend research summaries, including a trashy piece of "research" on children, a couple of interesting mask studies and a phenomenal rate of prevalence in India.
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Aug 22 2020

Excess Coronavirus and Lockdown Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I stand by my prediction that the lockdowns and terrorization of the population will kill more Americans than coronavirus will.
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Aug 22 2020

More on the Kansas Mask Lies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Kansas officials try to mask the truth on the non-effect of masks, but they are unmasked.
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Aug 21 2020

Really!?! You Cannot Be Serious!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Depressingly, another new winner in the coronavirus lunacy contest, first prize is an all-expenses paid trip to hell, which currently is located in a number of US states run by…
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Aug 20 2020

Where a Minnesotan Got Coronavirus

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
More screwed up data makes in hard to identify trends in where transmission is occurring.
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Aug 20 2020

How About This For Death Reporting

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Oregon shows Minnesota how to report deaths.
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Aug 20 2020

Florida Versus New York

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
By any measure, New York did a far worse job of handling coronavirus than Florida has done.
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Aug 20 2020

Death Reporting Issues

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Death reporting in Minnesota drives me crazy.
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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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