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Jun 20 2022

Coronamononia Lives Forever, Part 146

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Starting the week off with some interesting research nuggets.
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Jun 20 2022

Week-Over-Week Charts, June 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
We are in a trendless period now.
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Jun 20 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, June 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A laborious wind-down from the latest wave.
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Jun 20 2022

Wastewater Charts, June 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
We give you the straight poop on wastewater monitoring for CV-19.
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Jun 19 2022

Schaudenfauci

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
I do my best Ann Landers or Dear Abby, or whomever the current epitome of social grace is, in regard to Dr. Fauci's encounter with the Dread Virus CV-19.
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Jun 17 2022

Age Structure Charts, June 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest update in the age structure series.
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Jun 16 2022

Ramblings in the Early Morning

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Hard not to be obsessed with the extremely tenuous and dangerous situation our country finds itself in.
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Jun 15 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 145

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A mid-week drop of research summaries to boost your flagging interest in the epidemic, which is completely justified.
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Jun 15 2022

Climate Quick Hit

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It is not clear that increasing levels of CO2 drive increased temperature, in fact the relationship may go the other way.
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Jun 14 2022

Reinfections Are Increasing Too

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Reinfections are up along with breakthrough events.
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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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