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May 12 2021

More Detail on Hospitalizations in Younger Age Groups

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
More charts showing the true state of hospital use by younger age groups.
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May 12 2021

More Evidence of Masks Working, or Not

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
An interesting comparison of mask-mandate and non-mask mandate states.
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May 12 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 64

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Bouncing around on an airplane and still getting off some research summaries.
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May 11 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 63

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A quick set of research summaries, more later and another set of charts.
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May 10 2021

The India Panic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
India has a lot of cases and deaths, but isn't close to what the UK experienced.
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May 10 2021

Age-Adjusted Deaths, Updated

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A chart of deaths by state, adjusted for population age-structure, is revealing.
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May 10 2021

LTC Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
There does not appear to be any increase in the proportion of LTC cases among staff or residents, contrary to a certain good doctor's concerns.
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May 10 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 62

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Yippee, its spring and I spring some more research summaries on you.
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May 08 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 61

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A few more observations on Minnesota's lightening up on lockdown measures and the usual medley of research summaries.
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May 07 2021

LTC/Non-LTC Deaths, May 7 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
LTC residents as a source of CV-19 deaths has dropped dramatically.
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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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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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