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May 08 2022

More Climate Delusion, Part 1692

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
You can find a few good blogs to disabuse yourself of the climate misinformation promulgated by environmental whack jobs.
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May 07 2022

Age Structure Charts, May 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Mild upticks are reflected in this week's age structure charts.
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May 07 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, May 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another rendition of the year-over-year charts.
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May 06 2022

The Mistress of Disinformation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
I didn't want to talk about this, but the level of absurdity around Presidementia Biden's plan for a Ministry of Disinformation and the clown he proposes to run it, necessitates…
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May 06 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 134

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Ongoing research summarization is occurring, despite my desire to end it.
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May 03 2022

Breakthrough Events, May 2 Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Vaccine effectiveness against all events is diminishing in all age groups.
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May 03 2022

Breakthrough Events, May 2 Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The official numbers miss a huge amount of breakthrough cases that are identified by home testing, but this is truly an epidemic of the vaxed at this point.
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May 03 2022

Hospital Onset CV-19 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A lot of people get CV-19 after being admitted to the hospital, way more than even the data says.
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May 03 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 133

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some interesting research findings as the country undergoes a largely hidden wave of breakthrough Omicron infections.
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May 02 2022

A Couple More Health Research Summaries

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A few health research nuggets from the last couple of years, trying to catch up on a few of the more interesting pieces not related to the epidemic.
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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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