The way we buy and bill for healthcare via the third-party claims-based insurance model has resulted in near complete suppression … More
Category: Third-Party Free Practices
Beyond the Financials: DPC Promotes Better Patient Care & Service | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
But let’s set aside costs for now and focus on the consequences of how our leviathan-like expensive claims driven system … More
Common Sense Economics: Aligning Incentives with Evidence-based Care | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
Standard economic theory in healthcare assumes that demand for medical services is inelastic. Simply stated, inelasticity means that demand for … More
Understanding Obamacare | Kat Quinn, MBA in HIT | LinkedIn
Understanding Obamacare | Kat Quinn, MBA in HIT | LinkedIn.
New Healthcare Crony Attempt to Crash the Free Market Party – by G. Keith Smith, MD
Riding in to rescue the victims of Obamacare and other government healthcare schemes are guess who? The legislators? The regulators? … 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
Fair-Healthcare Zones: No Third-Party Contracts Permitted! | Robert Nelson, MD | LinkedIn
But these government-given advantages enjoyed by the health plan networks are just the icing on the cake compared to the … More
