Does Direct Primary Care hate insurance?

In a word, no. Insurance is a good thing.  Insurance is used to cover the cost of an event for which we don’t want to or can’t pay out-of-pocket.  For instance, we carry car insurance in part to cover the replacement price of a car in the event of a car...

The cost of primary care, Part 1

I going to provide two examples in two posts about the cost of primary care.  First, I want to highlight what the true cost of ordinary primary care visits can be even for those with insurance.  Second, I hope to show how difficult it is to determine the cost of care...

A Good Commentary on the Modern Medical System

As the winds of medical practice have shifted over the last several years, many physicians are calling into question the medical model under which we have worked for the last couple decades.  It is an interesting discussion to understand how we ended up in this...