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Andrew Sprung's avatar

I read just this week - -forget where -- that self-funding among large employers is down.

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Merrill Goozner's avatar

If you find a link, post it here. If true, it would be a disappointing trend. It's not like private insurance rates are significantly different ... about 10% lower, on average according to the HCCI study. That comes nowhere near making up for prices paid by all private payers (self-insured and privately insured) that are on average 2 1/2 to 3 times Medicare rates.

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John J. Dalton, FHFMA's avatar

Merrill, I also thought that the NYT article missed the mark on Medicare. If they age-adjusted the Medicare demographic cohort each year, it's likely that the flood of younger, healthier Baby Boomers whose lower per capita costs along with Covid’s killing off high-spend elderly contributed to the flatlining.

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