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May 25 2020

How the Epidemic Reaction Could Have Been Handled Better

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
If you are going to criticize actions, it is appropriate to suggest a better way.
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May 25 2020

Important New Pre-existing Immunity study

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new paper finds cross-reactive T-cells to coronavirus in a large percent of the unexposed population.
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May 24 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some research summaries from today.
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May 23 2020

Some Weekend Coronavirus Columns and Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few things I noticed in the last day or so.
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May 23 2020

A Holiday Weekend Screed About the Insanity of the Current Policies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
A holiday rage against the horrific fate the Governor has dictated for all of us.
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May 22 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Trying to keep up with the ongoing deluge of coronavirus research.
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May 21 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 4, and a Model Tease

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A nightly recap of some research and stories.
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May 21 2020

What We Should Fear

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Hard not to be worried about a lot of things these days.
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May 21 2020

We Are Really Living in a Dictatorship

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another blood-boiling performance from our Governor at yesterday's daily briefing.
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May 20 2020

More Coronavirus Nuggets

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A few columns and studies for your perusal.
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May 20 2020

A Couple of Quick Hits

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Lockdowns and stay-at-home orders exacerbate the epidemic.
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May 20 2020

Why All the Concern About Antibodies?

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Antibodies to coronavirus disease are significant both for the course of the epidemic and our understanding of where we are in that epidemic.
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May 19 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another rapid summary of some papers.
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May 19 2020

More on Children and Coronavirus

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Let our children go back to a normal life.
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May 19 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More research on antibodies, infection rates and children.
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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

Included Health wants no one to feel left out, so it is buying Firefly Health, which is attracted to the light of all that money.  Included Health is yet another...
July 29, 2026
Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 2026
Speaking frankly, Candid Health looks like one of those companies we don’t need in health.  It claims to have new revenue cycle management software that is heavily driven by AI...
July 27, 2026
Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 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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