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Mar 05 2021

Seasonal/Geographic Pattern to Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
An animation of the death rate pattern.
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Mar 05 2021

Some Coronavirus Fun, Courtesy of Twitter

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A couple of items from Twitter that show how much we should rely on "experts".
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Mar 04 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 17

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
There has never been a flood of research on any disease topic like there currently is on CV-19. More summaries.
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Mar 03 2021

Minneapolis Lives in Darkness, “Progressive” Edition

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A few coronavirus and political observations.
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Mar 03 2021

The Seasonal/Geographic Pattern, Part 1

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
A cool animation of geographic changes in hospitalization rates.
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Mar 03 2021

Another Round of Age Structure Charts

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
No change in the extreme age bifurcation of the impact of the epidemic.
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Mar 03 2021

One More Time on the Mask Comparisons

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Take a look at Sweden and the UK in regard to mask-wearing and the course of the epidemic. Kind of makes you wonder doesn't it.
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Mar 02 2021

Coronamonomania Thrives in Darkness, Part 16

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A few slow days on the research front, but catching up now.
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Mar 01 2021

Active Cases Updated Once Again

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Active cases, i.e. infectious people, are way down in Minnesota and likely will stay down.
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Mar 01 2021

And the Cohort Analysis One More Time

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
One more outcomes-based case cohort analysis. Very, very stable.
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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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