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Nov 20 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 63

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Another large release of research in the last couple of days, trying to keep up.
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Nov 20 2020

Masks, Masks, Masks, Is Your Whole Life Masks, Part 2

By Kevin Roche Commentary 15 Comments
I am tired of talking about this but nothing seems to fire up the responses, especially from drive-by readers, like anything on masks.
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Nov 20 2020

Save the Children

By Kevin Roche Commentary 15 Comments
The most prominent feature of the response to the epidemic has been the destruction of thousands of lives due to irrational and unbalanced mitigation actions, which have caused special harm…
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Nov 19 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 62

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Getting near the end of the week and again dropping a large batch of summaries.
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Nov 19 2020

Okay, I Do Have a Few Comments on the Recent Press Briefings

By Kevin Roche Commentary 17 Comments
A few reflections on the plethora of press briefings and speeches by the Governor this week.
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Nov 18 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 61

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
A major research dump today, so trying to get on top of it with a bunch of summaries late tonight.
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Nov 18 2020

The Danish Mask Study

By Kevin Roche Commentary 83 Comments
A full exposition of the Danish mask study, which on close reading has even stronger findings than the headline results suggest.
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Nov 18 2020

A Canadian Physician Steps Out of Line

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Whole lot of common sense from a Canadian physician.
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Nov 18 2020

Long-Term Care Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A couple of great charts from Twitter detail LTC deaths across the country.
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Nov 18 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 60

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
A few more research summaries to absorb with your coffee.
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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

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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