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Aug 10 2020

Monday Meanderings

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
How dumb does the state think we are? Apparently pretty dumb.
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Aug 09 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 61

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few research pieces, covering topics of current interest.
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Aug 08 2020

What We Learned and Know This Week

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
Still a number of unanswered questions around our new BFF, which isn't going away, ever.
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Aug 06 2020

An Antidote to Fear-Mongering

By Kevin Roche Commentary 6 Comments
Absolutely nothing to be concerned about in Minnesota's non-epidemic.
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Aug 06 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 60

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A potpourri for your afternoon perusal.
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Aug 06 2020

More on Children and Schools

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
There is a curious surge in published research attempting to suggest that children are a major problem in the epidemic. Wonder what or who could be behind that?
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Aug 06 2020

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

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Despite my anger at the mis-information spread by politicians, and others, I will try to be balanced about the mask issue.
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Aug 05 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 59

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The late nite research summary dump. Much more coming tomorrow, including masks and schools.
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Aug 05 2020

When Do Coronavirus Deaths Occur?

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
An updated table and chart based on date of death.
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Aug 05 2020

Updated Minnesota Trends

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
An updated look at death and hospitalization rates shows the general continuing decline.
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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

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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