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Apr 30 2021

Age Proportions Charts

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Watching the age group percents for cases, hospitalizations and deaths tells us a lot.
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Apr 30 2021

How Minnesota Makes Epidemic Policy

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
The IB is caught red-handed trying to make up after the fact justifications for his actions.
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Apr 30 2021

The CDC Knows There Is No Real Evidence to Support Masking Policies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A revealing response from the CDC to a request for data on mask policies.
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Apr 30 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 56

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A light day for research and we were blessed with a second coronavirus briefing this week.
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Apr 29 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 55

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
More messaging from the state DOH and some immune response heavy research.
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Apr 28 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 54

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Research keeps coming and I keep summarizing.
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Apr 27 2021

Catching Up on a Lot of Health Care Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
A catch up on a year's worth of health research, all of which I can't get to.
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Apr 27 2021

Excess Non-CV-19 Deaths in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
We have almost 3000 excess deaths in Minnesota that are not due to CV-19, but to the lockdowns and terror campaign. Good work Governor Walz.
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Apr 27 2021

Active Cases Update, April 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Active cases have rolled over, peak looks like April 15.
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Apr 27 2021

Hospital Use Update, April 26

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Hospital use is dropping as well. We are in the clear for some time.
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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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