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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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May 04 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 59

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Boston was pretty dead, but here are some observations and research summaries I put together to liven things up on the way back.
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May 04 2021

Cohort Analysis, May 1 Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The current cohort analysis, which suggests that hospitalizations are stable as a percent of cases and deaths are declining.
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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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Hinge Health, which manages care for musculoskeletal and migraine conditions, opens the door to gastrointestinal care with a $105 million acquisition of Cylinder Health, which focuses on managing meds and...
August 5, 2026
If you are a health care company, you too can raise astronomical sums of capital if you claim to be part of the AI wave.  Function Health demonstrates by raising...
August 3, 2026
Included Health wants no one to feel left out, so it is buying Firefly Health, which is attracted to the light of all that money.  Included Health is yet another...
July 29, 2026
Telehealth is still going strong and whenever possible the companies in the field talk about AI.  Doctronic has an “AI Doctor” which you can visit and it is acquiring Summer...
July 29, 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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