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CONTINUE READINGCheck out Time Magazine’s discussion on pills in America.
CONTINUE READINGReason.com 3/13/2013 “Direct primary care is part of a larger trend of physician-entrepreneurs all across the country fighting to bring transparent prices and market forces back to health care. This is happening just as the federal government is poised to interfere with the health care market in many new and profoundly destructive ways.”
CONTINUE READINGYouTube – 11/2/2012 The major cause of exploding U.S. heath care costs is the third-party payer system, a text-book concept in which A buys goods or services from B that are paid for by C. Because private insurance companies or the government generally pick up most of the tab for medical services, patients don’t have […]
CONTINUE READINGBeterHealth.com 3/26/2009 “It is estimated that 75% of Americans require an average of 3.5 office visits per year to receive all the medical care they need. If the average office visit is 15-20 minutes in length, then that averages out to 1 hour of a physician’s time each year. How much should that cost? Dr. […]
CONTINUE READINGUS News – 7/17/2009 “At the time, he and his partner estimated they were losing out on about $7 per patient, or $80,000 per month, by seeing people who participated in insurance plans of various types. This was in part because of the need to employ a billing staff that included six medical records clerks. […]
CONTINUE READINGLA Times 5/27/12 “A Long Beach hospital charged Jo Ann Snyder $6,707 for a CT scan of her abdomen and pelvis after colon surgery. But because she had health insurance with Blue Shield of California, her share was much less: $2,336. Then Snyder tripped across one of the little-known secrets of healthcare: If she hadn’t […]
CONTINUE READING“Some health policymakers are encouraged by this trend. They think an increase of direct-pay doctors—especially affordable ones—could lead to better health care in the U.S., which has the highest costs and some of the worst outcomes of any wealthy nation. “I think it’s great,” says Kevin Schulman, a professor of medicine and business administration at […]
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