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Nov 01 2020

An Illustration of Death Pull-Forwards

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A chart shows how deaths have been pulled forward among the very elderly.
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Nov 01 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 50

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Time changes, but not the flow of CV research.
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Oct 31 2020

No Reason to Panic, But That Won’t Stop It From Happening

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Can we finally exhibit some calm, rational, thoughtful response to the epidemic? Uhh, no, we are dictated to by politicians and that would be an oxymoron.
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Oct 30 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The work week ends but not my weak work on the virus and epidemic.
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Oct 29 2020

A Head Full of Brief(ing) Thoughts

By Kevin Roche Commentary 11 Comments
We are all doomed, I tell you, doomed. Or so say those who give us our daily brief.
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Oct 29 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 48

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Here we go again, with more research on the usual topics.
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Oct 28 2020

A Couple of Interesting CDC Studies

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
CDC drops a pair of interesting CV-19 related studies.
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Oct 28 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 47

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Not only is my head full of coronavirus research, but so is this post.
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Oct 28 2020

Masks, Masks, Masks, Is Our Whole Life Masks?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 8 Comments
I can't miss an opportunity to debunk the mask non-science, which is pretty easy to do.
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Oct 27 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 46

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A wide variety of quick summaries as we see the usual catchup with preprints of research from the weekend.
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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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