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Jan 10 2022

Hospital Capacity and Use, January 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Hospital use data, showing supposed CV and non-CV use.
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Jan 10 2022

Incidental Hospitalizations

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
New York State is the latest to come clean on how many CV-19 hosps are actually for treatment.
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Jan 10 2022

Year-Over-Year Comparison, January 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest year-over-year chart, starting to be influenced by Omicron.
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Jan 10 2022

Omicron, OMG, We Are Being Overwhelmed

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A look at the regional and national situation.
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Jan 09 2022

The Star Tribune Commits Journalistic Malpractice, Again

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
No point in being accurate but when you can put out misleading garbage and sell more papers.
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Jan 09 2022

More on Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
More information on deaths in the non-elderly.
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Jan 09 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 84I

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Even on the weekend, the research machine keeps spitting out summaries of new papers.
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Jan 08 2022

I Want to Rant, but Will Try to Be Rational

By Kevin Roche Commentary 19 Comments
I don't have much hair left but I am ripping it all out in frustration at our epidemic responses. I will attempt a rational appeal nonetheless.
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Jan 07 2022

Age Structure Charts, January 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The updated age series charts show the mischief being caused by increased testing, while serious illness drops rapidly.
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Jan 07 2022

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 83

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another dump of vaccine heavy research.
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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

DocGo, a provider of medical transport services and “mobile” health, is acquiring Hicuity Health, which offers “virtual” care services.  To show you what great investments many of these health care...
August 18, 2026
Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 2026
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

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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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