Opportunity Cost for Military Primary Care — draft chain
- September 18 first-draft snapshot: exact text recovered from commit
c3a570048d27e539723953eccb5dc2e1fb673912, committed September 18, 2026 at 23:27 UTC (13:27 Hawaii time). The first author-supplied draft was added earlier that day in f1ae81572b6447e177903132550be5ae26cd592e. This snapshot is the last saved version that day.
- September 19 second-draft snapshot: today’s O-4/5% revision. Relative figure/source links are adjusted for the snapshot location.
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These snapshots were added on September 19 from actual saved content. They do not imply earlier snapshot-file creation dates or backdated commits. Historical drafts retain their original assumptions. The September 18 unsupported retention predictions are historical, not current conclusions.
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September 19 condensed draft extraction and its linked source PDF: latest author-supplied version, preserved separately from the earlier same-day draft.
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September 19 condensed revision 2: additional supplied draft with the cash-gap figure and double-spaced body. Prior same-day versions remain intact.
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September 19 revision 3: author-requested substantive and mechanical edits; AI assistance disclosed; author-review draft.
- September 29 revision 4: author-requested critique fixes, stay-to-20 pension comparison (Figure 2, Table 2), and a separate 3% real pension discount rate; AI assistance disclosed; author-review draft.
- September 29 revision 5: adds continuation pay, civilian ramp-up, transition and insurance costs, VA disability concurrent receipt, SBP, TRICARE for Life, post-20 earnings, and a practitioner break-even check; AI assistance disclosed; author-review draft.
- September 29 revision 6: adds the after-tax and total-compensation check (Table 3), retiree TRICARE value, post-20 pay limitation, and companion-calculator citation; AI assistance disclosed; author-review draft.
- September 29 revision 7: replaces both figures (break-even gross vs after tax; waterfall to after-tax total compensation) and renumbers them by first mention; AI assistance disclosed; author-review draft.
- September 29 revision 10: author-supplied four-page version (double-spaced; body pages 2–5) with Appendices A–F, including adapted counseling materials. Preserved unchanged; reviewed in
paper/revision-10-review-2026-09-29.md.