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Jul 29 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 28, Overall Population

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough reporting continues to show little protection against infection and modest effectiveness against serious disease.
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Jul 29 2022

Unprecendented Warmth, My Uhhh, Rear

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
In the current environment of ideological science, it pays to do your own research on what really drives climate trends and what those trends actually are.
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Jul 29 2022

Ukraine Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Russians are masters at dis-information, but the truth is that their military and economy are being devastated by the war in Ukraine. And that is a good thing as long…
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Jul 28 2022

Geographical Variation in Health Spending by Payer

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another study takes a look at variation in spending by payer across geographic regions.
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Jul 26 2022

Emperor Fauci, Lord of the “Science”

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
For whatever reason, the Great Lord Fauci is incapable of keeping his mouth shut and has done a number of enlightening recent interviews.
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Jul 26 2022

Year-Over-Year Comparisons, July 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Year-over-year patterns are seriously distorted by certain facts, but still interesting to look at.
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Jul 26 2022

Hospital Onset CV-19 Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Not only are most hospitalizations attributed to CV-19 not for treatment but some people actually get infected in the hospital.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Overall Population

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another week of breakthrough data demonstrates that the epidemic is largely occurring in the vaxed and boosted.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Ages 65 and Over

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
In the oldest age groups, there is some effectiveness of vax against infection and hospitalization.
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Jul 25 2022

Breakthrough Events, July 21, Ages 50 to 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
In this older adult age group, vax shows no protection against infection, but some against hospitalization.
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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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