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Nov 08 2022

Ted Lasso Ropes Me In

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Ted Lasso is so much more than a comedy.
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Nov 07 2022

Breakthrough Events November 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Overall, vaccines have a marginal impact on the course of the epidemic, and boosting looks quite ineffective.
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Nov 07 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, November 2022

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Year-over-year charts reveal no sign of a fall/winter uptick yet.
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Nov 07 2022

Hospital Bed Use During the Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Despite a certain incompetent Governor's constant lies about hospital bed use during the epidemic, the state apparently spend none of its billions in CV-19 aid to increase beds.
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Nov 07 2022

Polling Accuracy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Political polling hasn't been great for a long time, with a bias that runs in one direction.
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Nov 05 2022

Phony Jobs Numbers and a Rotten Economy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The jobs reports have had some issues lately, but the reality is that the economy is a mess because of excessive federal spending
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Nov 04 2022

Temperature Errors By the Climate Alarmists

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The official temperature data is full of flaws, all of which create spurious warming trends.
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Nov 03 2022

California Nightmarin’

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Businesses and people are leaving California, but Dems want to impose its policies on everyone.
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Nov 03 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 174

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
On and on and on this goes, with continuing vax heavy research.
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Nov 02 2022

You Must Be Kidding, You Cannot Be Serious

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Our local source of ideological pap and one-sided non-reporting endorses the Incompetent Blowhard for re-election, noting his "steady leadership".
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Nov 01 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 173

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A little late for your Halloween celebrations, but a basket of research treats for you!
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
On an entire population basis, vaxiing and boosting have unclear value at preventing events.
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27, Ages 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In the very oldest age group, being vaxed does seem to show some benefit in terms of infection, hospitalization and death.
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
As we get to older age groups, we are still seeing minimal protection against cases, hospitalizations or deaths from the vax.
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A big chunk of the population is in this age group, and the boosted have the highest rates of cases, but vax does seem to limit hospitalization risk for this…
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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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Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025
Sometimes companies change their name, I have no idea why and it often seems goofy.  CapitalRx, which is a pharmacy benefit manager, with aspirations to be a broader technology provider...
September 25, 2025
Innovacer, a health care technology company that claims extensive use of artificial intelligence, is acquiring Story Health, which helps manage patients with chronic care conditions and who need specialty care.
September 18, 2025

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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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