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Feb 11 2023

A Couple of Economic Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
We are in deep, deep financial and economic trouble, with islands of sanity in a few states.
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Feb 11 2023

Births in the US

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A simple chart helps see what the trend in births was pre-epidemic and during the first couple of epidemic years.
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Feb 11 2023

Long-term Care Deaths Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
An updated look at CV-19 deaths in long-term care facilities.
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Feb 10 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 192

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another set of summaries on a wider variety of topics.
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Feb 09 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 191

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
This set of summaries is heavy on the ongoing growth in research showing the very bad effects of lockdowns on health.
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Feb 04 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 190

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Still doing my best to keep you up on the research relevant to the epidemic, the epidemic response and the vaccines.
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Feb 03 2023

Minnesota Dems Go Full-on Crazy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
Minnesota has gone full on lunatic in policy.
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Feb 03 2023

(Biggest Sigh Yet) Can We Finally Acknowledge Masks Are Pointless

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The most prestigious source for evidence-based medicine and a large study once more demonstrate the futility of masking.
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Feb 03 2023

Today’s Jobs Report Was the Phoniest Yet

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Once more into the employment reporting mess, since we supposedly had a great jobs report this morning. We didn't.
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Feb 02 2023

More on the Job Number Follies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The US Labor Department continues to spread misinformation on the state of the labor market.
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Feb 02 2023

United States Excess Deaths, Part 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An initial attempt at calculating national excess deaths.
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Feb 01 2023

United States Excess Deaths, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Per capita rates of deaths in the US as Dave continues his excellent analysis of excess deaths.
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Jan 30 2023

Excess Deaths in Minnesota, Part 7 Revisited

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A revised look at excess deaths and death rates using a ten year baseline.
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Jan 30 2023

Excess Deaths in the United States

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A foray into excess death calculations in the entire nation.
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Jan 28 2023

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 189

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another vax heavy set of research summaries, still not super-effective and definitely not causing lots of adverse events.
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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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