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Sep 14 2021

The Mask Mandate Worked so Well in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Look at the spectacular success of the Minnesota mask mandate, the 3Ms in action.
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Sep 14 2021

Breakthough Event Update September 14

By Kevin Roche Commentary 15 Comments
A substantial portion of all epidemic events in Minnesota are breakthrough infection related.
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Sep 14 2021

Cumulative Age Structure, September 14

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The cumulative age structure charts---in terms of serious illness, it is all about the elderly.
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Sep 14 2021

Its Health Care Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Summaries from my meat and potatoes, evaluating health care research on topics relevant to our health system.
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Sep 13 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
More Minnesota evasion and outright prevarication and a few important summaries with a focus on hospitalizations.
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Sep 13 2021

More Masking Nonsense from the CDC, etc.

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Another useless study from the CDC and a couple of other notes.
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Sep 11 2021

Overview Chart, September 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
The overview of cases, hospitalizations and deaths from time immemorial.
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Sep 11 2021

What the CDC Won’t Show You From the Study on Children’s Hospitalization

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The truth about trends in children's hospitalizations, not the lies presented by the CDC last week.
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Sep 10 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 20

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
The virus never sleeps and neither do I in my zeal to provide timely data and research for you.
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Sep 10 2021

Age Structure Update, September 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Always important to check to see if differential trends among age groups are occurring, especially to check on the lies told by certain public health officials.
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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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