Skip to main content
Healthy Skeptic
search
Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts
  • search
Close Search

Commentary

 

Apr 27 2022

The Futility of Suppressing a Respiratory Virus

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
A CDC study finds very high prevalence rates of CV-19 infection, particularly among children.
Read More
Apr 26 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 130

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Interesting research continues to dribble in so I keep dribbling summaries out.
Read More
Apr 24 2022

More Temperature Records from Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Interesting to look at actual Minnnesota temperature data from more rural sites. Some warming, some cooling, unclear why the difference.
Read More
Apr 24 2022

Active Cases Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Active cases have also moved up, but again, from a very low base.
Read More
Apr 24 2022

Year-Over-Year Charts, April 22

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The year-over-year charts are also updated now.
Read More
Apr 24 2022

Week-Over-Week Charts, April 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The is an increase in cases, which appears more significant than it is due to the small base.
Read More
Apr 24 2022

Age Structure Charts, April 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A hint of a case rise, but the levels are very low.
Read More
Apr 21 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 129

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A bunch of vaccine effectiveness studies were dropped recently.
Read More
Apr 21 2022

Breakthrough Events, April 18, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Age group charts of events in the vaxed and unvaxed sub-groups.
Read More
Apr 20 2022

My Thoughts on the Strib Editorial on the End of the Plane Mask Mandate? Take a Guess.

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
The end of the travel mask mandate is the end of civilization, according to the Star Tribune and most other whacked-progressive media sources.
Read More
  • « Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 195
  • 196
  • 197
  • 198
  • 199
  • …
  • 649
  • Next »

✅ Receive notifications of new posts by email.

About this Blog

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.

Healthy Skeptic Podcast

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

InStride Health hit the ground running, well maybe walking, as it raised $30 million in additional capital for its pediatric mental health business.  Children’s mental health would be just fine...
June 17, 2026
GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026

Tags

Access (89) ACO (165) Care Management (268) Chronic Disease (216) Comparative Effectiveness (81) Consumer Directed Health (71) Consumers (514) Devices (168) Disease Management (149) Drugs (605) EHRs (145) Elder Care (149) End-of-Life Care (97) FDA (85) Financings (1844) Genomics (80) Government (357) Health Care Costs (1428) Health Care Quality (616) Health Care Reform (1227) Health Insurance (1116) Health Insurance Exchange (162) HIT (478) HomeCare (76) Hospital (490) Hospital Readmissions (79) Legislation (78) M&A (1723) Malpractice (84) Meaningful Use (105) Medicaid (334) Medical Care (346) Medicare (607) Medicare Advantage (80) Mobile (89) Pay For Performance (92) Pharmaceutical (211) Physicians (569) Providers (252) Regulation (72) Repealing Reform (133) Telehealth (79) Telemedicine (325) Wellness and Prevention (316) Workplace (117)

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.

Categories

  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research

Useful Links

  • Congressional Budget Office
  • Health Affairs

RSS Feed

RSS feed

© 2026 Healthy Skeptic.

  • twitter
  • facebook
  • linkedin
Close Menu
  • Commentary
  • Headlines
  • Research
  • Useful Links
  • About & Contact
  • Podcasts