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    Crisis of Empowerment
    Gayle Brekke
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 7 min

    Crisis of Empowerment

    My recent re-reading of Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions in a Top-Down World by Charles Koch (which I highly recommend, by the way)...
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    Paying for Primary Care - Part 4
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    • Mar 14, 2021
    • 8 min

    Paying for Primary Care - Part 4

    A look at physician incentives in direct and traditional primary care delivery Direct Primary Care and Cash Fee for Service Until now in...
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    Paying for Primary Care - Part 3
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    • Feb 11, 2021
    • 5 min

    Paying for Primary Care - Part 3

    We examine behavior changes associated with the use of insurance and how they drive health care spending even higher. In parts 1 and 2 of...
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    The Tetradic Trumpcare Tally
    gregfann0
    • Dec 28, 2020
    • 17 min

    The Tetradic Trumpcare Tally

    “I think it’s probably the thing that I’m most disappointed…that I haven’t been able to say what a good job we’ve done. I haven’t been...
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    Paying for Primary Care - Part 2
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    • Dec 9, 2020
    • 6 min

    Paying for Primary Care - Part 2

    How much more does insurance cost when it covers primary care? We saw in Part 1 of Paying for Primary Care that using insurance to pay...
    93 views3 comments
    Paying for Primary Care - Part 1
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    • Dec 2, 2020
    • 6 min

    Paying for Primary Care - Part 1

    How much can we save by using insurance properly? The unaffordability and poor value of health care and health insurance are top concerns...
    209 views6 comments
    Bureaucracy
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    • Oct 24, 2020
    • 9 min

    Bureaucracy

    In the year 2000, the now world-renowned economist, Hernando De Soto published a must-read entitled “The Mystery of Capital – Why...
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    The Big Lie: Out-of-Network Benefits
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    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    The Big Lie: Out-of-Network Benefits

    I recently happened upon a publication entitled, "In Network vs. Out of Network Care - Fair Health Know Your Source Publications." A...
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    Why Challenge Status Quo Thinking?
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    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    Why Challenge Status Quo Thinking?

    We must be willing to examine the fundamentals of health care in the US. Status quo thinking accepts “the way things are” as the way...
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    Welcome to Descant
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    • May 9, 2020
    • 5 min

    Welcome to Descant

    Our aim is to ultimately make the health care system better by challenging status quo thinking, exploring the evidence, and engaging in...
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    Direct Primary Care: Good for What Ails ME!
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    • May 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    Direct Primary Care: Good for What Ails ME!

    What this model is trying to do, and the amazing doctors who are doing it, are inspirational. They give me hope that health care can be...
    30 views0 comments
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