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Aug 05 2022

Another Brilliant Progressive Policy

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
St. Paul leads the way in rent control, achieving the predictable, except to progressives, result of making things worse for low-income persons.
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Aug 04 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 158

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The week winds down, but not the coronavirus research summaries.
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Aug 04 2022

Reinfection Case Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Re-infection hospitalization and death case rates are a little lower than those for breakthrough cases.
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Aug 03 2022

Health Spending: the Calm Before the Storm

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health care spending growth has been almost nonexistent for a year and a half, due to far lower health care cost inflation compared to general inflation. That is ending.
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Aug 02 2022

Physician Compensation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
An updated report relating to clinician compensation gives you a sense of why US health care costs so much.
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Aug 01 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 157

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Vaccine effectiveness, impacts on children and other nuggets.
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Aug 01 2022

Reinfection Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
DOH finally responds to requests for reinfection data.
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Aug 01 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, July 29

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The ongoing look at the big picture epidemic trend.
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Jul 30 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 156

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another in the endless stream of summaries on CV-19 related research.
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Jul 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 28, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Population rates for different age groups show a continued plateau for events, but we are missing almost all infections due to home testing.
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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

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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