For anyone still laboring under the myth that insurance carriers are motivated to hold down costs in healthcare OR that health insurance is expensive BECAUSE health-care is expensive OR that insurance helps PROTECT us from high billed charges, consider the …
Category: Direct-Pay Medicine
Lies That Won’t Die: Health Insurance Costs and Healthcare – Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc
In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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DPC and Self-Insured Employers: Counting the Costs
“In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its …
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Trump’s New Vision for Health Care
Hats off to John C. Goodman again! His work in leading the effort for market-based healthcare reform over the past 4 decades, and highlighting the government’s role in the dysfunctional mess we labor in, is second to none. This Forbes …
DPC and Self-insured Employers: Lifestyle-friendly Care for the 21st Century
http://ushealthmedia.com/dpc-and-self-insured-employers-lifestyle-friendly-care-for-the-21st-century/ In a typical insurance-based practice, meaningful face-to-face time between doctor and patient is somewhere between 5-10 minutes. Interesting, but surprisingly, shorter visits tended to result in more prescriptions being written and less time trying to get to the root …
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Congress and the IRS have stranded patients in SwampCare
Why can’t patients use their HSAs – supposedly their own money – to pay DPC fees? Because the IRS says they can’t. Not only that, if they have a DPC membership, they can’t even make a contribution to their HSA. …
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DPC and Self-insured Employers: A Benefits Trifecta
By contracting with a Direct Primary Care practice and re-routing subsequent encounters away from the more expensive insurance-based protocols, Self-insured employers can utilize creative plan designs to cut costs and improve employee satisfaction. The savings can be substantial even after …
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Pillars of the FMMA | Free Market Medical Association
The Pillars of the FMMA were created due to the wildly varying definitions of free market and transparency. As this movement grows, many want to utilize the work of the true free market warriors to create new programs, products, and …
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