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Feb 09 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 3

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Continuing with research summaries of interest.
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Feb 08 2021

Uncle Joe Sells America’s Childrens’ Lives for Pennies Each

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Our president and governor are willing to sell the lives of children cheaply, maybe we can bribe them into good policy instead of the bad ones teachers' unions buy.
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Feb 07 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
This one is just research summaries, all research summaries, all the time.
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Feb 07 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
A new dawn, a new series title, same old rehashed research summaries and scintillating commentary.
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Feb 05 2021

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 100

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
The last in this series, but fear not, a new one will begin tomorrow, and I use this finale to place a curse upon a certain segment of our society.
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Feb 04 2021

Meteorology and the Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
An interesting study on weather factors and viral spread.
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Feb 03 2021

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 99

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
The penultimate version of this series, racking my brain for a new title.
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Feb 02 2021

A Few Numbers and Some Minnesota Nonsense

By Kevin Roche Commentary 14 Comments
Another day in the paradise that is Minnesota, or should I say the pair a dice that is used to determine CV-19 policy.
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Feb 01 2021

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 98

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
I give up figuring out how many research abstracts and papers I have read, but I will keep churning out the summaries.
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Jan 30 2021

The Epidemic Is Winding Down, or Is It?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 12 Comments
In reality the epidemic is winding down, but will governments accept that?
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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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