In an e-book and blog about paying for primary care, Gayle Brekke presents an argument laced with actuarial theory and jargon, calculations, notes, and citations. An appearance of scholarly pursuit and mathematical precision is thereby created; in both blog and e-book Brekke makes clear that she is an experienced actuary who is also deep intoContinue reading “Quick guide/recap for Brekke’s “Paying for Primary HealthCare” and my responses”
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Including Primary Care in Health Insurance Policy Coverage with Insurance Is Reasonable
The missing part 5 of Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, a comment. Under the traditional insurance model, patients receiving covered primary will indirectly pay significant administrative costs, but they may also gain compensating financial advantages that Gayle Brekke’s multipart “Paying for Primary Care” series fails to recognize, ignores, or minimizes. At the top of theContinue reading “Including Primary Care in Health Insurance Policy Coverage with Insurance Is Reasonable”
Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, Comment on Part 4
In the first three installments of her Paying for Primary Care series, actuary Gayle Brekke’s invoked actuarial principles and behavioral economics to scold coverage of primary care on the ground that the costs of primary care are “predictable, routine, likely events over which the customer has a great deal of control”. In her fourth installment,Continue reading “Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, Comment on Part 4″
Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, Comment on Part 3
In Part 3 of Paying for Primary Care, Gayle Brekke discourses on the behavioral economics of shared health cost arrangements to conclude that insuring primary care adds costs not seen in direct pay. These cost, she contends, simply add on to the 50% administrative cost burden of insurance she had already she had already declaredContinue reading “Brekke’s “Paying for Primary Care”, Comment on Part 3″
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