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t0mpr1c3today at 1:21 AM1 replyview on HN

25% is perhaps on the high side of estimates, but perfectly plausible. If you prefer citations from JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2785479


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tptacektoday at 1:49 AM

That's all administrative costs. As the abstract says, many of those costs are intrinsic to providing services.

Here's JAMA for the BIR, based directly on cost breakdowns in specific real systems:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2673148