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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27, Ages 12 to 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
For older children, also a very limited or nonexistent benefit of being vaxed.
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Oct 31 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 27, Ages 5 to 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
These charts show why the notion of mandating or even suggesting CV-19 vax for younger children makes no sense--it offers them no protection.
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Oct 30 2022

Kaiser Family Foundation 2022 Report on Employee Health Plans

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Employment-related health plan costs were relatively flat from 2021 to 2022. Don't expect the same in 2023.
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Oct 28 2022

Renewable Energy Bullshit

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
$3.8 trillion in renewable energy investments got us nothing but less reliable and more expensive energy sources.
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Oct 27 2022

Diesel Fuel Prices

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Diesel fuel prices have risen rapidly, contributing to much higher costs for truckers, which raises the price of just about everything.
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Oct 26 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 172, Special Heart Disease Issue

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The rise in heart disease and especially fatal heart attacks is linked to CV-19 infection, but moreso, I believe, to gaps in care and missed diagnoses and stress due to…
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Oct 25 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 171

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few more summaries on some important topics, like bad lockdown effects.
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Oct 25 2022

Comparative Case Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An attempt to assess hospital and death rates as a function of cases in recent months.
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Oct 24 2022

Breakthrough Events, October 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Uhhhh, Houston we have a problem, the unvaxed are at or below their proportion in the population for cases, hosps and deaths.
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Oct 24 2022

Little Timmy Walz Is a Coward

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
For Little Timmy Walz, lying and incompetence are an ingrained part of his character.
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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

Included Health wants no one to feel left out, so it is buying Firefly Health, which is attracted to the light of all that money.  Included Health is yet another...
July 29, 2026
Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 2026
Speaking frankly, Candid Health looks like one of those companies we don’t need in health.  It claims to have new revenue cycle management software that is heavily driven by AI...
July 27, 2026
Health care is a big part of the economy so investment dollars tend to flow there, not always wisely.  There is alot of gibberish in this press release from Pearl...
July 9, 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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