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Dec 14 2022

Breakthrough Events as of the Week of December 8, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The final adult age group shows limited protection of vax and boosting against serious disease.
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Dec 12 2022

RSV in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The massive RSV wave that hit Minnesota's children is a result of the lockdown and isolation policies of little Timmy Walz.
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Dec 11 2022

Breakthrough Events, December 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Same old same old on the breakthrough reports, in terms of raw numbers it is all about the vaxed and the boosted.
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Dec 11 2022

Regional Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A look across the US finds no evidence of any significant CV-19 wave.
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Dec 11 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, December 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The evidence does not suggest we are having a CV-19 wave, notwithstanding some fear-mongering by our esteemed public health officials.
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Dec 08 2022

“Unprecedented Warmth”, or at Least Unprecedented BS

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A new study using old DNA shows that Greenland was far, far warmer as recently as a million years than it is today.
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Dec 08 2022

The Structure of the Health Care Industry in America

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
All aspects of America's health care system have concentrated markets which is the major factor in our high prices and high health spending.
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Dec 08 2022

Renewable Energy is a Fantasy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Battery storage is perhaps the most delusional aspect of the ludicrous notion that humanity would be better off using "renewable" energy.
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Dec 07 2022

The Epidemic and Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Children suffered incredible damage to their health, including mental health, and social and educational development as a result of the epidemic response.
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Dec 07 2022

Health Care Price Inflation is Just Beginning

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A new report gives a good background on health care's contribution to inflation.
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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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December 23, 2025
Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
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

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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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