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Jun 29 2020

Some Interesting Modeling Studies

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some modelers are considering the role of population variability in their work.
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Jun 28 2020

Coronavirus Items, Children & School Related

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Various studies and medical groups keep pushing for schools to open and showing what low risk children have.
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Jun 28 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 29

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Several posts on the way with a bunch of articles and studies.
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Jun 27 2020

The Daily Briefing Has an Interesting Revelation

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some musings from yesterday's coronavirus briefing.
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Jun 27 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 28

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Catching up on research again. More to come shortly.
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Jun 26 2020

What Is Going on With the Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Don't let the panic purveyors drive us to irrational policies again. The epidemic is proceeding in a manner that is probably beneficial from a public policy perspective.
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Jun 26 2020

Cases and Deaths in Children by Country

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Children represent a low percentage of cases and deaths in all countries.
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Jun 25 2020

Minnesota Versus Wisconsin, Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Wisconsin continues to win the coronavirus border battle, despite no statewide lockdown.
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Jun 24 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few observations and studies.
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Jun 24 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Once more into the coronavirus breach.
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Jun 24 2020

Current Case Fatality Rates by Age

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another look at relative case fatality rates by age and another demonstration of the low risk to the general public and the very high risk to the oldest age groups.
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Jun 24 2020

The True Course of the Epidemic, Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An updated version of how the epidemic has proceeded and is likely to proceed.
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Jun 23 2020

More Articles and Studies

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
My daily evening dump on articles and research.
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Jun 23 2020

The Content of the Memos on Economic Effects of the Minnesota Extreme Lockdowns

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A summary of what apparently were the only economic analyses looked at by the Dictator in keeping his extreme shutdown in place.
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Jun 22 2020

Dangerous Skipping of Health Care

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As predicted, and the CDC is confirming, we are going to see many deaths and other bad health consequences from the scare-mongering and lockdowns.
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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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Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 2026
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
March 4, 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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