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Oct 06 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 33

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
A lovely day in Minnesota, which I will ruin by providing you with more CV-19 research summaries.
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Oct 05 2021

A Health Care Post!! How Exciting!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Health care spending is highly concentrated in a few Americans, and that spending is somewhat persistent.
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Oct 04 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, October 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The year-over-year charts reveal several items which require explanation and more data from DOH.
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Oct 04 2021

Active Cases, October 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Active cases appear to be rising, but that is likely an artifact of excessive school testing levels.
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Oct 04 2021

Age Group Charts, October 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Looking at the age groups the item that really stands out is the unnecessary and damaging rise in testing among school-aged groups.
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Oct 04 2021

Hospital Bed Use, October 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Hospital capacity has dropped substantially in the last few weeks. You know why.
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Oct 04 2021

Another Look at Testing and Cases in the Child Age Groups

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Looking at the proportion of child-age testing and cases shows how school opening leads to bad testing policy.
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Oct 04 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 32

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another dreary week in CV-19 land, starting with the usual vaccine-heavy research summaries.
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Oct 02 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 31

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Almost all the interesting research seems focussed on vaccines and variants, but I start with a couple of CDC studies with little pearls of useful data.
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Oct 01 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 30

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Two pretty interesting studies on vax versus unvaxed cases and infection protection versus that from vax, and some other 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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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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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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