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Aug 03 2022

Health Spending: the Calm Before the Storm

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Health care spending growth has been almost nonexistent for a year and a half, due to far lower health care cost inflation compared to general inflation. That is ending.
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Aug 02 2022

Physician Compensation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
An updated report relating to clinician compensation gives you a sense of why US health care costs so much.
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Aug 01 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 157

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Vaccine effectiveness, impacts on children and other nuggets.
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Aug 01 2022

Reinfection Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
DOH finally responds to requests for reinfection data.
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Aug 01 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, July 29

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The ongoing look at the big picture epidemic trend.
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Jul 30 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 156

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another in the endless stream of summaries on CV-19 related research.
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Jul 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 28, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Population rates for different age groups show a continued plateau for events, but we are missing almost all infections due to home testing.
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Jul 30 2022

Age Structure Charts, July 28, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of basically similar numbers of events, no fall, perhaps a slight increase.
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Jul 30 2022

Wastewater Metrics, July 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another crappy analyis of wastewater levels of CV-19 viral remnants.
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Jul 29 2022

Renewable Energy is a Fantasy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Charts of where our energy actually comes from on a daily basis shows what a fantasy it is to imagine that renewables can meet our needs.
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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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