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Jun 16 2020

Place of Death

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Minnesota has a very different proportion of deaths from coronavirus in various settings than exist in national numbers.
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Jun 15 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus, Part 21, and My Daily Sickening from Listening to the CV Briefing

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
The usual medley of coronavrius items and my regurgitation, with commentary, of the usual nonsense from the daily coronavirus briefing.
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Jun 15 2020

Happy Screwed Up Model Day

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
It is June 15 and the Minnesota epidemic model is fully revealed as a piece of crap.
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Jun 15 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 21

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A weekend's catchup on coronavirus research.
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Jun 14 2020

Where We Are Now on Coronavirus

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Our politicians need a kick in the butt to help face reality and get our economic and social lives moving again.
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Jun 13 2020

Schools

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Every Governor, or the President if necessary, should declare now that schools will be open in the fall.
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Jun 12 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 20 (Because I lost track of where these are too)

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Some end-of-the week research summaries.
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Jun 12 2020

National Coronavirus Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
A table gives dramatic witness to the strongly skewed age impact of coronavirus disease.
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Jun 12 2020

Hug a Policeperson

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The most abused group in the country today is police officers and they don't deserve it.
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Jun 12 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The latest news and research summaries.
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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

Angle Health, a vendor of a supposedly artificial intelligence powered health benefits platform for employers raised $134 million in new capital.  All you have to do is mention AI and...
December 4, 2025
Reema Health, which calls itself a complex care management company, reamed investors for $19 million in capital, to be used for the usual “to support growth”.  The firm works with...
December 2, 2025
Press Ganey, which provides market research for health plans and providers , is being purchased by health care survey firm Qualtrics for $6.75 billion.  Both companies claim this is all...
October 6, 2025
Another weirdly named company, Thyme Care, spices things up by raising a fresh $97 million in capital to support its cancer care managment business.
September 25, 2025

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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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