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May 05 2020

Podcasts Are Up, Video to Follow

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

I have started making a few coronavirus podcasts and they are available through the podcast button.

May 05 2020

Morning Miscellania, with a Focus on Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A variety of articles and studies.
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May 04 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research Again

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few late night summaries of papers.
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May 04 2020

The Likely True Course of the Coronavirus Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
This epidemic likely has some unusual features, and the reactions to it have not taken those into account.
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May 04 2020

Afternoon Delights (Nothing is Delightful about Coronavirus)

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few coronavirus nuggets.
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May 04 2020

Some Miscellania Coronavirae

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A couple of more columns and a video of interest.
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May 04 2020

A Couple of Minnesota Observations

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some tidbits from my state.
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May 03 2020

A Couple of Late Night Research Summaries

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another antibody study and a study on another aspect of the immune system and coronavirus.
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May 03 2020

More Random News and Columns

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A few random items.
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May 03 2020

We Are Living in a Dictatorship

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
You have to read the executive orders to understand how one person is dictating every aspect of our lives.
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May 03 2020

Children and Coronavirus

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A further look at some research on relative susceptibility to coronavirus.
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May 02 2020

A Stop the Presses Paper Relating to Population Immunity

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new paper recognizes that individual susceptibility to infection must be accounted for in models of the epidemic.
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May 02 2020

What to Look for in the Next Run of the Minnesota Model

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The estimates from the next Minnesota model run will tell us if the modelers are being pressured to make deaths look high.
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May 02 2020

A Few News and Other Stories

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Summaries of some articles and columns.
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May 01 2020

A Few Research Summaries

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
I finally get back to what I really love, reading and summarizing scientific papers.
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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

Headlines

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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