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Jan 06 2021

Closing Businesses and Shutting People in Their Houses Doesn’t Stop Transmission and Causes Substantial Harms

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A little more research on the futility of lockdown tactics and the harms they cause to health.
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Jan 06 2021

Another Update on Active Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Cases have dropped to the background level, all on their own.
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Jan 06 2021

Long-term Care Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Charts of long-term care deaths by state are illuminating. We are twisting into pretzels over a lot of deaths of people with a few months to live. Every teen suicide…
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Jan 06 2021

Update to the Cohort Analysis

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Hospitalization and death rates continue to show stability or even slight declines.
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Jan 06 2021

A Chart View of Epidemic

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
One chart gives a good picture of the course of the epidemic in Minnesota according to common measures.
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Jan 05 2021

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 86

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few summaries tonight, many more tomorrow.
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Jan 05 2021

We Finally Get Some Information, Albeit Limited, On Cycle Number Distribution

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Minnesota's state lab is reporting a significant number of non-viable virus PCR tests as real positives.
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Jan 04 2021

Yes, Masks Can Cause Problems, Especially for Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
Not only is it not proven that masks play a significant role in limiting community transmission, but they do have adverse effects, especially for children.
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Jan 03 2021

Minnesota’s Epidemic and Response

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
The epidemic response of most jurisdictions in the United States, as well as around the world, has been dreadful, particularly since the overall welfare of their populations should be the…
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Jan 03 2021

The Final Big Picture Assessment for 2020 and First of 2021

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Starting the year with a status update.
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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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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
There are so many health care companies that people struggle to come up with names and we end with weird stuff like Grow Therapy, which nonetheless raised $150 million to...
March 4, 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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