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Jul 12 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, July 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another big picture look at the epidemic. No dramatic moves.
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Jul 11 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough data under the new DOH format.
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Jul 09 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 151

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A pretty good selection of studies for another set of research summaries.
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Jul 08 2022

New Age Structure Charts, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Population rates by age group under the new data set. Check out 0 to 4 case and hospitalization rates. What has happened recently to that age group.
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Jul 08 2022

New Age Structure Charts, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The shift to weekly reporting causes a little gymnastics but we can keep doing the age structure reporting.
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Jul 08 2022

LTC and non-LTC Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
LTC resident deaths have risen as a proportion of all deaths, due to waning vax effectiveness and refreshing of the vulnerable pool.
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Jul 07 2022

The Country Is Dividing Itself

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
We are surely and more rapidly becoming a country segregated by politics.
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Jul 06 2022

Education on the Climate System and Renewable Energy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Indoctrination and ignorance are to blame for the mass delusion that we have a climate crisis or that renewable energy could fix that non-existent crisis.
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Jul 06 2022

High Dollar Health Care Claims

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
High cost claims make up most health care spending and result in a lot of reinsurance and stop-loss claims.
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Jul 05 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 150

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few items to start our truncated work week.
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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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