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Jan 05 2022

Been a Long Time, but I Can Assure You Masks Work as Well as They Ever Have

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Masks and vaccines are equally adept at stopping community transmission of CV-19.
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Jan 05 2022

Case Rates, January 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Relative case rates for the vaxed and unvaxed, based on the crappy and incomplete data shared by DOH.
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Jan 05 2022

Breakthrough Proportions by Age Group, January 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Breakthrough events as a proportion of all events, by age group.
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Jan 05 2022

Breakthrough Events, January 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The Monday breakthrough table and chart.
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Jan 05 2022

Relative Rates by Vax and Infection Status, January 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Relative rates of infection among the vaxed, unvaxed and prior infected.
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Jan 05 2022

Reporting Lags for Minnesota Data Through Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Knowing when data for a particular day's events are complete is important.
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Jan 04 2022

What’s Going On, What’s Going On

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
The madness must end or it will consume us.
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Jan 03 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 80

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Early in the year and Moronic research dominates the pre-prints.
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Jan 02 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 79

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
The first research summary of 2022 is pretty much like that last one for 2021.
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Jan 01 2022

And One More Thing

By Kevin Roche Commentary 10 Comments
My deepest and abiding gratitude to all of you who read.
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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

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December 23, 2025
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December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025

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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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