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Direct primary care is a small but fast-growing movement of doctors who don't accept insurance and instead charge a monthly membership fee. At a time when many are feeling pressure from high healthcare costs, direct primary-care models can be a cheaper alternative that offers perks like quick access to doctors and sometimes wholesale prices on medications or lab tests. And it could be a model employers including JPMorgan, Amazon, and Berkshire Hathaway through their nonpro...fit healthcare venture could tap into as a way of lowering costs. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-employers-could-use-dire

Modeled after a product known as concierge medicine that’s marketed mainly to wealthy people, Direct Primary Care is a membership-based provider model that strips the health insurance layer and its exorbitant costs from the provider-patient relationship and makes concierge-level access available for $100 or less a month, depending on a member’s age. Members can make same-day appointments and get unlimited visits with their health-care provider at no additional cost eit...her in their office, on the phone, or through a face-to-face phone or tablet app. By avoiding insurers and corporate owners, Direct Primary Care practices can save members thousands of dollars in costs for drugs, diagnostics, and routine care for chronic medical issues, proponents say. As a Direct Primary Care provider, Singh now charges a monthly membership fee ranging from $39 a month for children age 18 and younger to $100 for adults age 60 and older, with discounts for groups, families and couples. Memberships buy consultations lasting up to an hour, compared with the 10 to 20 minutes patients can expect with a traditional provider. The ability to provide that level of attention is rewarding, she said. http://www.sun-sentinel.com//fl-bz-direct-primary-care-law

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Healing is replaced with treating, caring is supplanted by managing, and the art of listening is taken over by technological procedures. -Dr Bernard Lown His book "The Lost Art of Healing" is my next read. He nailed it 22 years ago and then experienced it first hand today. Kudos to his Intern physician for this profound "pick-up"! https://www.nytimes.com///doctors-revolt-bernard-lown.html