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Oct 07 2021

Coronamonomania Lives Forever, Part 34

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Heading toward the end of the week with yet another round of vaccine-heavy research summaries.
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Oct 07 2021

Relative Death Risks

By Kevin Roche Commentary 20 Comments
I used to do this all the time over a year ago, and if anything the contrast in death risk has gotten even starker.
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Oct 07 2021

Regional Cases, October 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A peak at cases around the country.
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Oct 07 2021

Breakthrough Events, October 4

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The state's reporting method makes it hard to track trends in breakthrough events, which is exactly what they intend.
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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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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

GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 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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