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Mar 27 2021

The Neanderthals Are Winning

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The Neanderthals in Texas appear to have been right to completely open up the state and end the mask mandate. They apparently are smarter than the president.
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Mar 27 2021

Time For Minnesota to End the Mask Mandate to Help Flatten the Curve

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
An interesting chart of upper Midwest states reveals a unique suppression measure only Minnesota is enforcing and that may be facilitating case spread.
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Mar 26 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 33

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Some observations and summaries and then I am off to the land of the free, Florida, again.
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Mar 25 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 32

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The usual medley of observations and summaries.
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Mar 24 2021

LTC Versus Non-LTC Deaths in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A visual picture of the impact vaccination may be having on LTC deaths.
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Mar 24 2021

Mask Mandates Are an Effective Tool for Facilitating Spread

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More strong evidence of the (non) effectiveness of mask mandates.
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Mar 24 2021

Seasonal Coronaviruses

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An interesting spike in the Midwest is occurring with one strain of seasonal coronavirus.
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Mar 24 2021

Lockdowns Work Really Well Too

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
This study featured Minnesota, so gets its own post and a little commentary on the coronavirus briefing.
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Mar 24 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 31

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Unloading another group of research summaries. Never fear, always more to come.
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Mar 23 2021

The Mask Nonsense Doesn’t Stop, Even From Unexpected Sources

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
Some people should stay away from citing research they don't understand.
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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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Research

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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