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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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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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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

GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 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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