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Jul 26 2021

Emergency Mental Health Alert

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
As if written terrorism weren't enough, the Minnesota DOH is holding its first briefing in weeks today. Oh, the horror.
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Jul 26 2021

The Delta Variant

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Delta terrorism, with all due respect to the late John Belushi, is greatly over-rated.
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Jul 25 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 94

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Almost caught up on the research. Looking forward to yet another week of virus terrorism from our government and experts.
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Jul 25 2021

Breakthrough Infections, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More on the likely age structure of the infections in the vaccinated cohort.
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Jul 25 2021

National LTC Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Deaths nationally among LTC residents from CV-19 have plummeted.
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Jul 25 2021

UK Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A chart demonstrates vaccine effectiveness by comparing deaths in epidemic waves.
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Jul 24 2021

Breakthrough Infections

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Infections in the vaxxed population need to be looked at in light of age structure, just like for the general epidemic.
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Jul 24 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 94

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
After a brief trip, in catchup mode again, with some interesting research summaries.
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Jul 24 2021

Stupidity Reigns

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Andy Slavitt continues his unabated reign of idiocy and other observations.
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Jul 24 2021

Year-Over-Year Comparison, July 19

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A year-over-year look shows similar testing, lower everything else.
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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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