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Nov 12 2020

Asian Countries Have a Different Approach

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Comparing the US to some Asian countries is very misleading.
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Nov 12 2020

Charts from the JP Morgan Lockdown Report

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Some charts from the JP Morgan report illustrate lack of association between extreme mitigation measures and cases or deaths.
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Nov 11 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 56

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
I hit the wrong button and published before I actually got the research summaries in the post. Updated now.
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Nov 10 2020

Duty Only Rings Twice

By Kevin Roche Commentary 18 Comments
A marathon session recapping our fearless leader's coronavirus blathering for your late evening enjoyment.
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Nov 10 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 55

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
A few quick reactions and a couple of research summaries as I attend to some other epidemic matters.
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Nov 10 2020

Deaths in European Countries

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
How could any rational person not question the prevailing wisdom on mitigation strategies when they look at this chart.
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Nov 09 2020

Prevalence, Transmission and Cases

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
How fast a pathogen is moving through a population is not an easy calculation.
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Nov 08 2020

Two Obvious Circumstances to Consider

By Kevin Roche Commentary 17 Comments
Two circumstances demonstrate the futility of current mitigation tactics to stop CV-19 spread. We are doing tremendous damage using tactics that are ineffective.
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Nov 07 2020

The Lowbrow Crowd Arrives

By Kevin Roche Commentary 9 Comments
Don't read the blog if you aren't interested in a thoughtful discussion of the science and the data relating to the epidemic and don't comment if you have no intellectual…
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Nov 06 2020

Get Ready, Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 43 Comments
A little ranting on the latest coronavirus briefing.
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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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