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May 18 2021

Year-Over-Year Comparison, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The year-over-year comparison is interesting but confounded by so many changes.
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May 17 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 68

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Early in the week research summaries.
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May 17 2021

Vaccinations, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Vaccinations continue to move along in Minnesota.
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May 17 2021

Epidemic Overview, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The epidemic big picture shows why the mask mandate was ended and victory is being declared.
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May 17 2021

Where Are the Breakthrough Infections

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An estimate of how many breakthrough vaccinations are in each age group.
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May 17 2021

LTC Deaths, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
LTC deaths continue to fall absolutely and as a percent of all deaths.
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May 17 2021

Vaccination/ Age Structure Animations, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Outcomes over the epidemic by the vaccination age groups used by the state.
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May 17 2021

Age Structure Animations, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Giving you the ability to see trends by age group in key outcomes.
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May 17 2021

Testing Charts May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The evolution of testing during the epidemic.
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May 17 2021

Hospital Use, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another view of hospitalization use.
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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

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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