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Jul 28 2020

Another State in Which a Mask Mandate Has Made a Big Difference

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Nevada's mask mandate is working as well as California's.
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Jul 28 2020

Norway Does a Mask-Wearing Review, Guess What the Result Was

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Norway conducts a review of the evidence for benefit of community wearing of masks and recommends against use, based on the likely small benefit, if any, balanced against potential harms.
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Jul 27 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 51

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Always in catch up mode on research. Hoping to get to some data analysis tomorrow.
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Jul 27 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 50

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Again catching up from the avalanche of research.
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Jul 27 2020

What I Have Learned from the Epidemic and the Response to It.

By Kevin Roche Commentary 5 Comments
I have learned some depressing things about our country and population, but there is a ray of hope.
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Jul 27 2020

The Big Picture

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
This epidemic is notably marked by the pathetic lack of good guidance by so-called experts, which has led to devastating public policy actions wreaking havoc on economies, social cohesion, health…
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Jul 26 2020

Mask Wearing & Deaths

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Coronavirus deaths in a country also aren't correlated with the level of mask use.
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Jul 25 2020

A Few More Minnesota Observations

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Mask dregs and a few other thoughts on Minnesota.
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Jul 25 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 49

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Research summaries focusing on the immune response to coronavirus.
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Jul 24 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research, Part 48

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few interesting pieces of research, including some mask updates that are unhelpful to the mask fetishists.
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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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