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Sep 28 2020

Excess Death Chart

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A visual of the national trend in lockdown deaths.
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Sep 28 2020

We Should Be Really Worried About All Those University Student Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A table demonstrates lots of University cases, nothing serious. Stop the over-reaction.
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Sep 28 2020

Picturing Transmission

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A nice diagram of droplet and aerosol transmission.
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Sep 28 2020

Sweden, Oh Sweden

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Sep 27 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research Hits the Century Mark

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
One more dump of research.
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Sep 27 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 99

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another late weekend research summary drop.
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Sep 26 2020

Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3, Testing

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More research suggests the need for spending more time on how good our infection and antibody testing is.
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Sep 26 2020

Where We Are With Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
The mask mandate is an abysmal failure, according to the Incompetent Blowhard's own statement about what the effect would be. It is going to be even more of a failure…
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Sep 26 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 98

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Some research and article references to start the weekend.
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Sep 25 2020

Understanding Death Reporting

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Deaths reported now occurred long ago--why the delay?
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Sep 25 2020

School Case Chart

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
In-person school is at least as safe as remote non-learning.
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Sep 24 2020

Unintended Consequences from Suppression Efforts

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A common and spreading mutation in the virus appears to be making it more infectious, thanks to our over-zealous suppression efforts.
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Sep 24 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 97

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A few more summaries of research and articles.
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Sep 23 2020

The “Experts” Fail Us

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
If you don't feel like listening to the supposed epidemic experts, you would have very good reason.
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Sep 23 2020

Back to the Future, and Other Summaries

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another paper on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and other research summaries.
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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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