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Feb 24 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 13

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Yet another in the ongoing series of research summaries.
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Feb 23 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 12

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Early morning research summaries, following a truly retch-inducing spell of listening to CV-19 briefings.
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Feb 21 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 11

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Back in cold Minnesota, although not as cold as when we left. Stuck indoors with nothing to do but write research summaries.
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Feb 19 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Another round of research summaries for your perusal.
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Feb 18 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Another drop of research summaries from sunny South Florida.
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Feb 18 2021

God, I Hope This Ends Soon, But in the Meantime…..

By Kevin Roche Commentary 15 Comments
Another step-back and try to see the big picture.
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Feb 17 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 8

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Out of the deep freeze, into the rainstorms, so its raining research summaries, with info on schools, masks and other topics.
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Feb 17 2021

Seasonality, Seasonality, Seasonality

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
As good a picture as you could ask for of seasonality for CV-19.
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Feb 17 2021

School Openings and CV-19 Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
More open schools appears to mean fewer CV-19 cases among children.
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Feb 17 2021

Massive Testing is Pointless and Worthless

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
No correlation between the amount of testing and per capita deaths.
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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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A company called Whoop raised a ridiculous $575 million in new capital at a supposed $10 billion valuation.  The press release was released on April 1, so I would like...
April 5, 2026
Big deals continue in health care financings.  eMed, which manages weight loss medications for employers, raises a hefty $200 million, giving it a valuation of $2 billion, which seems crazy....
March 31, 2026
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

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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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