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Sep 09 2021

Joe Biden Is a Senile Jackass

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Our president is the worst POS to ever inhabit the office.
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Sep 09 2021

Survival Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary 16 Comments
Your odds of surviving CV-19 are astoundingly good if you are under the age of 70 and pretty good even then til you get over 90.
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Sep 09 2021

Breakthrough Events, September 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Breakthrough infections as a proportion of the total cases and outcomes are rising, as you would expect.
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Sep 09 2021

Active Cases, September 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Once again, an active cases update, showing a downward trend.
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Sep 09 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 19

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Nearing the end of another week of CV-19 BS.
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Sep 08 2021

You Won’t Read About This Study in the Traditional Media

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Another mask study finding no effect from a mask mandate on anything, except maybe to make events go higher.
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Sep 08 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 18

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Back at the research summary grind.
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Sep 06 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
I am fired up about the CDC children's hospitalizations study and other matters, on a holiday no less.
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Sep 05 2021

Week-Over-Week Cases and Hospitalizations, September 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Week-over-week analysis also suggesting we are past the current case peak.
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Sep 05 2021

Active Cases, September 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Active cases are currently signalling we are past the peak of the current bump, but let's be cautious.
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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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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

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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