In Part 1 of “Paying for Primary Care”, actuary Gayle Brekke (mis)computed the provider side administrative cost burden of paying for primary care insurance at about 28%; in a response, I showed it likely that the true number was less than 9%, indicting that Brekke had inflated by more than three fold. Now we turnContinue reading “Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, Comment on Part 2″
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Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, Comment on Part 1
In the winter of 2021, actuary Gayle Brekke penned a four–part–blogpost–series arguing that the cost of insurance primary care delivery in the insurance system is at least 50% higher the cost of delivering primary care through subscription model DPC. Notably, Brekke’s work was theoretical rather than empirical; she attempted to compute the relative costs ofContinue reading “Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, Comment on Part 1″
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