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May 31 2021

Remember Remembering Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Reflect on why we should memorialize those who fought to protect our country and its ideals.
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May 30 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 76

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Take a holiday break and enjoy this lovely rendering of research summaries. Or maybe you would wisely choose to ignore CV-19 for the weekend.
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May 27 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 75

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Getting caught up on research before the holiday weekend!
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May 27 2021

Age-adjusted State Death Rates

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Looking at states ranked by per capita, age-adjusted death rates sparks some interesting speculation.
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May 27 2021

CV-19 Deaths by Age

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
CV-19 deaths are wildly bifurcated by age.
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May 26 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 74 (Subtitle: After Ten Months, the Minnesota Mask Mandate Is Finally Working)

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
In this edition, after ten months the Minnesota Mask Mandate (3M) is finally working. Oh wait, it was ended a couple of weeks ago. Hmmm.
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May 26 2021

Active Cases, May 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest review of active cases.
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May 26 2021

Cohort Analysis, May 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest cohort analysis shows no rise in hospitalization rate, continued decline in death rate.
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May 26 2021

LTC versus non-LTC Deaths, May 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Deaths among LTC residents truly fell dramatically with vaccination.
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May 26 2021

Vaccinations, May 25

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Minnesota, after a rocky start, is making solid progress on vaccination across all age groups.
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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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