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Dec 02 2022

Census Estimate Background

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Background on the census data which is available for Minnesota age group size estimates, which reveals even more clearly why DOH's choice of 2019 five-year estimates is flawed.
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Dec 02 2022

Breakthrough Events, December 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
No real change in event trends in any population sub-category as we head to winter.
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Dec 01 2022

More on the Population Estimates Used For Vax Effectiveness

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
This is a complex and tricky issue, but it appears very clear from our analysis that DOH is using an approach that substantially exaggerates vaccine effectiveness in the 65 and…
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Nov 30 2022

Data Fiddling in the Estimates of Vax Effectiveness for the Over-65 Age Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More questionable methodological selections by Minnesota DOH lead to an overstatement of the effectiveness of the vaccines in the oldest age group.
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Nov 30 2022

Breakthrough Events, November 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A slightly delayed update to the data on cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vax status.
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Nov 30 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, November 28

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Despite some newspaper headlines, there is no sign of any significant uptick in CV-19 events.
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Nov 27 2022

No More Boosters

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
There really is no good reason for people to get endless numbers of CV-19 vaccine boosters, including the new "bivalent" one.
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Nov 26 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 178

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A truly tremendous set of research summaries covering excess deaths, bad effects of the epidemic response, vaccines, population immunity and other fascinating topics.
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Nov 25 2022

Influenza Season

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We are supposedly in for a rough flu year, so Dave has dug out some comparative data.
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Nov 25 2022

You Can Find Real Climate Research if You Look

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More evidence on the naked attempts by most climate "scientists" to make data give answers they want.
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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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Research

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

Color Turquoise Health happy, as it raises $40 million in new capital to support an expansion of its business from price transparency to managing contracts for providers.  Unfortunately the price...
March 18, 2026
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

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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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