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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Direct Primary Care

(DPC) is an innovative alternative payment model improving access to high functioning health care with a simple, flat, affordable membership fee. No fee-for-service payments. No third party billing. The defining element of DPC is an enduring and trusting relationship between a patient and his or her primary care provider.

Patients have extraordinary access to a physician of their choice, often for as little as $70 per month, and physicians are accountable first and foremost their patients. DPC is embraced by health policymakers on the left and right and creates happy patients and happy doctors all over the country!

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There are lawsuits already and have been really. See, just let the 'free market' take over and the entrenched will be on you like a thief. There are tax games like only after tax $$ can pay these payments when before tax $$ pay your insurance premiums.

Insurance companies cutting off their end because the patient went to direct primary care.

Potentially 50 different legal regimes to work through.

DPC is still growing though, with 600 groups nationwide.

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ORIGINAL: HaveRopeWillBind

This could work on a national basis if everyone paid into the same healthcare group, but if different groups exist, some will be low cost and will have basically substandard care, and others will have high fees that the general public couldn't afford, creating groups of elite health care. Of course the best doctors will gravitate to the highest paying groups quickly, leaving the rest of the populace with mediocre or even incompetent doctors and nurses, etc. It's one of those good ideas on paper that doesn't pan out so well in the real world. It would lower the cost of healthcare some, but would likely lower the quality of care available to most people by a greater factor.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

Oh God, you guys keep dreaming up dumb ways to justify not being sensible.

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I've always wondered how a solid majority of capitalists accept being ripped off by private medicine a minority of capitalists, laughing all of the way...to the bank.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

Oh God, you guys keep dreaming up dumb ways to justify not being sensible.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

Direct Primary Care

(DPC) is an innovative alternative payment model improving access to high functioning health care with a simple, flat, affordable membership fee. No fee-for-service payments. No third party billing. The defining element of DPC is an enduring and trusting relationship between a patient and his or her primary care provider.

Patients have extraordinary access to a physician of their choice, often for as little as $70 per month, and physicians are accountable first and foremost their patients. DPC is embraced by health policymakers on the left and right and creates happy patients and happy doctors all over the country!

HERE

There are lawsuits already and have been really. See, just let the 'free market' take over and the entrenched will be on you like a thief. There are tax games like only after tax $$ can pay these payments when before tax $$ pay your insurance premiums.

Insurance companies cutting off their end because the patient went to direct primary care.

Potentially 50 different legal regimes to work through.

DPC is still growing though, with 600 groups nationwide.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

One problem.

It is simple and makes sense.

So, there is no way in hell the government will stand for it.

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ORIGINAL: susie
Get rid of all the insurance companies that raise the cost of your healthcare. Pay a % of your salary into one fund that runs all hospitals in the USA and pays all doctors and specialists. The cost of healthcare will reduce..