Standard economic theory in healthcare assumes that demand for medical services is inelastic. Simply stated, inelasticity means that demand for … More
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Understanding Obamacare | Kat Quinn, MBA in HIT | LinkedIn
Understanding Obamacare | Kat Quinn, MBA in HIT | LinkedIn.
Healthcare, it is the cost silly | Anthony Wunsh | LinkedIn
And the number one driver of these costs is the way care is paid for, and many if not most … More
A New Market Is Rising | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
I maintain that the same old stakeholders have been controlling things for too long, giving us a system looks like … More
OP/ED: ‘Direct primary care’ shown to please patients and reduce costs, including for imaging | The Direct Primary Care Journal
The company said the savings derived from “a marked reduction in expensive emergency room visits, inpatient care, specialist visits and … More
Medicine Is About to Get Personal | TIME
The idea is deceptively simple: Pay frontline doctors a fixed monthly fee directly instead of through the byzantine insurance bureaucracy. … More
A Letter to My Physician Colleagues: The State of Medicine 2014
There is an old German proverb that states, “Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.” That saying was a … More
Direct primary care emerges in post-reform world. | The Direct Primary Care Journal
As DPC becomes more widespread, options for self-funded health plans are increasing. One example is a collaboration between NextCare Holdings, … More
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