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May 17 2021

Active Cases, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Active cases are just going to keep going down.
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May 17 2021

Cohort Analysis, May 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The cohort analysis, stable to declining rates of deaths and hospitalization, variants clearly don't cause more severe illness.
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May 17 2021

Average Age of Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The average age of cases in Minnesota has fluctuated a bit during the epidemic.
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May 16 2021

What Comes Next

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
It is time to end the excessive attention to CV-19 and move back to pre-epidemic life.
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May 16 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 67

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Research summaries on the usual topics and real freedom may be breaking out around the country.
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May 15 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 66

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
End-of-week observations and research summaries.
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May 15 2021

No, the Vaccines Don’t Alter Your DNA

By Kevin Roche Commentary 15 Comments
Please, please, please don't buy into the conspiracy theories about mRNA vaccines modifying your DNA.
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May 14 2021

Health Care Spending

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Health care spending is likely to rise sharply in the next couple of years.
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May 13 2021

No More Mask Mandate!!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 18 Comments
NO MORE MASK MANDATE!!!!!
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May 13 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 65

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
More research to catch up with.
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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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