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Jun 26 2021

Active Cases, June 22

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Active cases have dropped under 1000 in Minnesota and new cases are coming in at less than a hundred a day.
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Jun 24 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 84

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another drop of research summaries, from 30,000 feet up!!
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Jun 23 2021

LOCKDOWNS DON’T WORK, PERIOD!!!!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A primary tool for managing the epidemic, the shelter-in-place order, or lockdown, is useless.
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Jun 22 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 83

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Some interesting research today, but the big ones deserve their own post and will get it shortly.
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Jun 22 2021

Hospital Employment of Physicians

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A new paper probes the effects of hospital employment of physicians.
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Jun 21 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 82

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The usual topics, PCR tests, seasonality and vaccination.
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Jun 19 2021

Sweden’s Death Picture

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Actual total deaths over a multi-year period in Sweden are running below average.
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Jun 19 2021

Masks Worked Really Well 100 Years Ago Too

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A great finding from a newspaper about the 1918 epidemic reveals the lasting (non) value of masks.
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Jun 19 2021

Where Have All the Coronaviruses Gone?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
CV-19 is exiting the stage and usual cast of viral villains is re-entering.
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Jun 17 2021

The Concentration in Health Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A couple of random observations and a review of an important analysis of the distribution of health spending in the population.
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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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December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025

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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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