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Sep 15 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 91

By Kevin Roche Commentary 7 Comments
Some evening tidbits in the never-ending fun that is coronavirus.
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Sep 15 2020

How Crazy Is Death Reporting?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Virginia illustrates how screwed up CV-19 death reporting is and what a misleading picture is created.
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Sep 15 2020

Three Recent CDC Studies

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Two recent CDC studies will be widely mis-reported and a third likely ignored.
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Sep 15 2020

Midwest Cases Are “Soaring” Says the NYTimes. Really?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 4 Comments
Charts on the non-existent Midwest state case surge.
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Sep 14 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus, Part 90

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Some encouraging developments and a few interesting pieces of research.
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Sep 14 2020

Another Example of Mask Effectiveness

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Masks have been enormously effective in Israel, but not at stopping transmission, so they must be effective at something else.
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Sep 14 2020

Damage from the Attempts to Mitigate or Suppress Virus Spread

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Repeat after me, lockdowns, etc. will kill far more people than CV-19.
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Sep 14 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 89

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Why not start the week with a few more research summaries.
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Sep 13 2020

Another Quick Word on PCR Testing

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Putting the PCR testing issues in context is useful and important. Why aren't we getting the data?
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Sep 13 2020

The Current Epidemic Recapitulation

By Kevin Roche Commentary 13 Comments
What DO we know about coronavirus and the course of the epidemic?
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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

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
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

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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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