The Money’s in the Wrong Place. How to Fund Primary Care.

The Health Care BlogMatthew HoltFebruary 5, 2024

Go back, read your Advisory Board Company reports from 1994. It says all this. But (deep breath here) — partly as a consequence of Obamacare & partly as a consequence of inertia in the system, and a lot because most people in health care actually work in public utilities or semi-public utilities because half the money comes from the government — instead of that, what we’ve got is this whole series of massive predominantly non-profit organizations which have made a fortune in the last decades. And they’ve stuck it all in hedge funds and now a bunch of them literally run actual hedge funds.

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