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Dec 02 2020

Is It Seasonal? You Betcha!!

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A chart does a good job of showing the geographic effect of seasonality.
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Dec 01 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 71

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Catching up with some brief summaries and article references.
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Dec 01 2020

How Long Has CV-19 Been Around?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
A new antibody study from the CDC finds evidence of much earlier and fairly widespread incidence of CV-19 infection.
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Nov 30 2020

Another State Provides Real Hospital Information

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Another state shows us that a lot of hospitalizations attributed to CV-19 shouldn't be.
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Nov 30 2020

Distance Non-Learning

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
One chart illustrates the irreparable damage being done to children's educations by the woefully misnamed distance learning.
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Nov 30 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 70

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The holiday ends but we never stop providing the most current research.
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Nov 30 2020

Active Cases Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
An update on that active cases analysis.
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Nov 30 2020

Kansas Has a Knack for Prevarication

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Update on that Kansas mask study.
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Nov 28 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 69

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
A couple of research summaries and observations as the holiday weekend slowed research publishing.
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Nov 27 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 68

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
My tryptophan induced post feast lethargy doesn't stop me from getting out some research summaries.
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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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Research

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

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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