In 2011, James Robinson of the University of California reviewedhospital prices charged to commercial insurers for six common procedures: angioplasty, … More
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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 … More
DPC and Self-Insured Employers: A New Paradigm for Primary Care
Imagine you’ve just been named Healthcare Czar of the United States. Your mandate is to achieve highly effective primary care. The … More
The Triumvirate of Healthcare Spending
by Robert Nelson, MD 1. Price distortion 2. Price Insulation 3. Price Confusion Shared via PowerPoint on Android.
Over-reliance on Health Insurance Can be Hazardous to Your Health: A Case for DPC
By Robert Nelson, MD Despite its own admission that Flu Vaccine is, at best, only 40 – 60% effective at reducing … More
Replacing Myths with Markets
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear a defense from the status quo about how different healthcare is … More
Pay-for-performance program failures raise doubts about future success of MIPS | FierceHealthcare
Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Modifier Program, which was designed to improve value by paying doctors who perform better on measures of … More
Save Us From The Health Care Reformers: They’re The Problem, Not The Solution
Dr. Goodman’s article is a fantastic foray into the dark history organized medicine, culminating with a brutally honest assessment of … More
