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May 07 2021

Hospitalization Rates by Age Group

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A great chart of trends in hospitalization rates by age group. You clearly do not see any evidence of an increase in the rate for younger cohorts, especially children and…
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May 06 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 60

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Getting caught up on research again, and a glimmer of "normality" in Minnesota.
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May 05 2021

Drug Pricing

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Drug pricing is excessive and hurts consumers, and it is not due to a free market, but to patents.
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May 05 2021

The Race Obsession

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
The racist race obsession, developed by BLM and promoted by the Biden administration and white progressives everywhere, is going to kill this country.
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May 05 2021

Children and Schools

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A quick post focused on children's infections and infectiousness.
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May 04 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 59

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Boston was pretty dead, but here are some observations and research summaries I put together to liven things up on the way back.
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May 04 2021

Cohort Analysis, May 1 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The current cohort analysis, which suggests that hospitalizations are stable as a percent of cases and deaths are declining.
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May 04 2021

Year-Over-Year Charts, May 1 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Tracking the epidemic for over a year now, via charts.
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May 03 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 58

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A couple of observations to start the week, but a slow research day.
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May 02 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 57

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
I am sure on a lovely Sunday morning you have nothing better to do than read research summaries, so here they are.
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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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