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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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Sep 23 2022

Breakthrough Events, September 22

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The trend in regard to breakthru events is clear and remains steady.
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Sep 21 2022

Renewable Energy and False Advertising

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Uhhh, Houston we have a problem, in real life no wind or solar plant in Minnesota comes anywhere close to its supposed power generating capacity.
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Sep 20 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 162

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Chugging along with the research summaries and catching up with the CDC publications.
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Sep 19 2022

Coronmonomania Lives Forever, Part 161

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Fall is coming, winter not far behind, but our sunny research summaries will continue.
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Sep 18 2022

Our Final Example of Stupid Policy for the Evening Involves Phony BS on Electric Cars

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Electric cars are an environmental nightmare, cost a fortune to buy and operate and are not loved by consumers.
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Sep 18 2022

Pro(re)gressives Never Tire of Their Stupid Policies

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Pro(re)gressive Policies are lunacy in action, never well thought out and always having unintended consequences.
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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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