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Jun 01 2020

A Nightly News and Research Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another depressing day in America, another night with some coronavirus nuggets.
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Jun 01 2020

Minnesota Milestone, From the Road

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Well, the end of May has arrived and the Minnesota epidemic model has performed as abysmally as predicted.
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May 31 2020

Drowning in Coronavirus Research Part 10?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A few more articles and research summaries.
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May 30 2020

Drowning in Sorrow, with a Chaser of Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
A few late night coronavirus hits for those of you with trouble sleeping, which would be understandable.
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May 30 2020

The Lockdowns Are Our Version of Medieval Medicine

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
The lockdowns are like the medieval practice of bleeding and work about as well.
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May 29 2020

Morning Notes

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The usual combo platter of articles and research.
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May 29 2020

Another Cruise Ship Example

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Another cruise ship study validates the notion that significant numbers of people simply do not become infected on exposure and of those who do get infected, most have asymptomatic infections.
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May 28 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 10

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A shorter set of research and article summaries.
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May 28 2020

Morning Update

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
The excessive and ill-informed reactions to the epidemic have to stop, but political leaders are more concerned about saving face.
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May 27 2020

A Head Full of Coronavirus Research, Part 9

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It never ends, more and more research on coronavirus.
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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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Research

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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