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Apr 04 2020

What is the CDC Up to With Causes of Death?

By Kevin Roche Commentary 3 Comments
Some information on coronavirus deaths at the CDC is confusing to say the least.
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Apr 04 2020

How to Lighten it Up for a Bit

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Take and break and let's disco!!
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Apr 04 2020

A Weekly Recap on What We Think We Know

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Time for a little summarization of where we seem to be.
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Apr 03 2020

CDC Report on Comorbidities of Those With Coronavirus Illness

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
A report from the Centers for Disease Control describes comorbidities of persons coming down with coronavirus disease.
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Apr 03 2020

Modeling Coronavirus in Minnesota

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Our state gives some further indication of just how screwed up it's modeling is and in how misleading a manner the results have been used.
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Apr 02 2020

Criticizing the Shutdown is Putting Money Over Lives. Really?

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
It gets a little old hearing from people that complaints about the extreme economic shutdown are just putting money over people.
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Apr 02 2020

Be Extremely Cautious About Anything You See Based on a Model

By Kevin Roche Commentary 2 Comments
Models that have little credibility are being used to make policy decisions.
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Apr 02 2020

Too Late for Wider CV Screening to Help, We Need Antibody Tests More

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
Dr.Fauci says more coronavirus testing and tracking of contacts can help return to normal faster. Too late for that.
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Apr 02 2020

Summaries of Some Useful CV Research

By Kevin Roche Commentary One Comment
Summaries of a few pieces of coronavirus related research.
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Apr 02 2020

The Emerging Picture of Economic and Associated Damage from Extreme Mitigation Measures

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments
The emerging economic and associated harms of the extreme mitigation measures are horrendous.
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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

GoHealth is another of those excessively valued health startups that was always destined to flounder and not it has filed bankruptcy and the company will be turned over to lenders....
June 8, 2026
Garner Health isn’t gathering any accolades from me, as it raises a new round of $100 million in capital at about a $2.5 billion valuation.   The company supposedly steers...
June 2, 2026
IKS Health, a British company with a US subsidiary that offers “care enablement” and mentions AI, of course,  is buying TruBridge for $557 million.  TruBridge offers revenue cycle management and...
April 30, 2026
Innovacer, which basically collects data on a patient from multiple sources and aggregates it, raised an astounding $275 million in new capital, supposedly at a valuation of almost $3.5 billion....
April 22, 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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