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Sep 26 2022

Long-Term Care Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An update on mortality in our LTC population.
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Sep 26 2022

Why Our Schools Are Dreadful

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The educational system is spending dramatically rising amounts on staff who do nothing but make things worse.
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Sep 26 2022

Tim Walz Is the Biggest Liar in the World

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Contrary to our prevaricating weasel of a Governor, Minnesota had one of the worst records in the country at keeping kids in school.
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Sep 26 2022

Breakthrough Events, September 22, Age 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The elderly have the clearest evidence of benefit against hospitalization from being vaxed.
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Sep 26 2022

Breakthrough Events, September 22, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The older subset of middle-age adults also sees clearer evidence of benefit from vax in terms of avoiding hospitalizaton.
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Sep 26 2022

Breakthrough Events, September 22, Ages 12 to 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Very slight reduction of risk from being vax in this young age group.
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Sep 26 2022

Breakthrough Events, September 22, Age 5 to 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The first of the age group specific analysis of vax effectiveness.
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Sep 25 2022

How About a Health Care Changeup?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A study debunks CMS' concerns that it pays more for the same beneficiary in Medicare Advantage than it would in fee-for-service Medicare.
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Sep 24 2022

Breakthrough Events, September 22, Ages 18 to 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Younger and middle-age adults get a fairly clear benefit from vax limiting hospitalization risk.
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Sep 24 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 163

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
This set of research summaries is not all about the vax!!
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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

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
InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 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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