Deflate the Healthcare Bubble! I recently spoke to a colleague who needs a cystoscopy for stone retrieval and/or stent placement. Local hospital quote is $25,000 for just use of facility, not counting anesthesia & urologist’s fee; with estimated patient responsibility …
Category: Price Tansparency
4 Questions for Politicians Claiming Single-Payer Will Lower Health Care Costs – Foundation for Economic Education
Jim Kelly Unfortunately, outrage buys fewer tongue depressors than one might hope. The top health insurers averaged 4.1 percent profit in 2017 (per Yahoo Finance). That’s taken on half (at most) of spending for-profit insurers handle. Eliminating those profits would …
DPC and Self-insured Employers: A Benefits Trifecta
By contracting with a Direct Primary Care practice and re-routing subsequent encounters away from the more expensive insurance-based protocols, Self-insured employers can utilize creative plan designs to cut costs and improve employee satisfaction. The savings can be substantial even after …
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Pillars of the FMMA | Free Market Medical Association
The Pillars of the FMMA were created due to the wildly varying definitions of free market and transparency. As this movement grows, many want to utilize the work of the true free market warriors to create new programs, products, and …
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Government-Enabled Kickbacks Escalate Medical Prices, Worsen Shortages, Stifle Innovation | PressReleasePoint
“While there are more than 600 GPOs in various industries, only a few GPOs dominate the medical market,” Dr. Singleton writes. “The current fee structure raises an obvious conflict of interest: … since vendors pay the fees as a percentage …
Research: Perhaps Market Forces Do Work in Health Care After All
Markets work! The dogma of healthcare “exceptionalism” which holds healthcare doesn’t respond to market forces is starting to take some serious hits. This data shows consumers/patients are capable of, and often make, (pre-planned) informed medical decisions when given meaningful information, …
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A Brief History of the Free Market Healthcare Movement: A discussion with Jay Kempton & Dr. Keith Smith
by Megan Freedman – Editorial Manager, Free Market Healthcare Solutions magazine These names are, in many ways, synonymous with the current free market movement, and for good reason. These men are the mavericks of healthcare. When Dr. Smith and Mr. Kempton were …
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 road-map to effective primary care includes eliminating barriers between physicians and patients, including bureaucratic inefficiencies, while simultaneously decreasing the over-all …
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