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Aug 20 2021

Israeli Vaccine Effectiveness Data

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A chart on the effectiveness of the Israeli vaccination program.
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Aug 20 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 7

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another week in CV-19 hell, cranking out the research summaries.
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Aug 19 2021

It’s CDC Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
The CDC releases a few studies on vaccine effectiveness.
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Aug 19 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 6

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
My usual pithy, and sometimes barbed, observations and a few good research summaries.
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Aug 19 2021

Big Picture Overview, August 18

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
One picture shows the entire course of the epidemic in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
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Aug 19 2021

How I Know Delta Isn’t Meaningfully More Transmissible

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The evidence that Delta is not more transmissible is all around, if you just look.
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Aug 19 2021

More Evidence on Masks and Transmission in Schools

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
More data on masks and cases in schools.
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Aug 19 2021

Are We There Yet?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Trying to identify early indicators of trend changes.
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Aug 17 2021

The Mass(k) Delusion Continues

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
Most of our population has Twitter-brain and just accepts gargage passed along by the mask religionists.
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Aug 17 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 5

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
A few observations in a world gone mad and some research 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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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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