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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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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...
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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...
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