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Jan 06 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 82

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Ripping off a few more research summaries with a lot more to go. May get two dumps in one night, how exciting!!
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Jan 05 2022

What You Won’t Read in the Star Tribune

By Kevin Roche Commentary 21 Comments
For the first time, I had a coronavirus op-ed rejected by the Star Tribune. Too much apostasy.
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Jan 05 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 81

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Another drop of research summaries and some interesting articles from surprising places.
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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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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

Color Turquoise Health happy, as it raises $40 million in new capital to support an expansion of its business from price transparency to managing contracts for providers.  Unfortunately the price...
March 18, 2026
Eight Sleep, another one of those weird names that litter health care, raised a new round of capital which supposedly values the company at $1.5 billion.  Eight Sleep sells sleep...
March 10, 2026
Simplistically, high health spending is due to high hospital prices, which is due to excessive market power.  An article shows just how concentrated most US hospital markets are.   In...
March 10, 2026
Mental health companies are very hot.  Virtual mental health services provider Talkspace is being bought by hospital operator Universal Health for around $835 million, a high multiple of revenue and...
March 10, 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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