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Jul 08 2022

New Age Structure Charts, Population Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Population rates by age group under the new data set. Check out 0 to 4 case and hospitalization rates. What has happened recently to that age group.
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Jul 08 2022

New Age Structure Charts, Raw Numbers

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The shift to weekly reporting causes a little gymnastics but we can keep doing the age structure reporting.
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Jul 08 2022

LTC and non-LTC Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
LTC resident deaths have risen as a proportion of all deaths, due to waning vax effectiveness and refreshing of the vulnerable pool.
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Jul 07 2022

The Country Is Dividing Itself

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
We are surely and more rapidly becoming a country segregated by politics.
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Jul 06 2022

Education on the Climate System and Renewable Energy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Indoctrination and ignorance are to blame for the mass delusion that we have a climate crisis or that renewable energy could fix that non-existent crisis.
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Jul 06 2022

High Dollar Health Care Claims

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
High cost claims make up most health care spending and result in a lot of reinsurance and stop-loss claims.
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Jul 05 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 150

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few items to start our truncated work week.
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Jul 04 2022

The State of Our Disunion

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Our nation is in a perilous state and our current national government and many state ones are only worsening our condition.
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Jul 04 2022

The Ugliness of Our Pro(re)gressive Tribe

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The most racist, bigoted group in America are the supposedly enlightened pro(re)gressives.
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Jul 01 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 149

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota reduces the rate of data reporting, which is overdue, and a few more research summaries.
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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

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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