Healthier patients
happier providers
a stronger America

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WATCH "THE UN-INSURANCE SOLUTION TO THE PRIMARY CARE MEDICAL MESS"

Dr. Garrison Bliss talks about how this simple model of direct primary care practices can revive the ailing health care industry.

American Crisis:

The Availability of Primary Care Doctors Is Jeopardizing Our Health and Our Economy.

America needs more primary care providers, but with today's fee-for-service insurance model, primary care has little to offer doctors. With family practice offering less than half what other specialist salaries pay and day-to-day job satisfaction dropping steadily, it should be no surprise that primary medicine attracts fewer and fewer new doctors and loses many practicing doctors each year.

The source of the problem is the fee-for-service system that the current insurance model enforces. By paying primary care doctors only a small fee per patient visit, the system rewards quantity of care rather than the quality of care. In order for primary care practices to survive, they must adopt a conveyer-belt strategy for seeing patients, with visits averaging only five minutes and unnecessary specialist referrals filling in the care gap.

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Making Sense out of Health Care

Imagine if we relied on auto insurance for regular car upkeep such as fluid changes and tires. Every oil change would require the same inspection, approval, paperwork, and billing hassles that we endure after an accident. Mechanics would spend hours filling out forms and negotiating reimbursement for every new windshield wiper blade or oil change. The overall cost of auto maintenance would increase exponentially to cover the business overhead. Fewer Americans would be able to afford auto insurance, with serious ramifications for liability, setting the stage for a national crisis.

It's a ridiculous idea, isn't it?

Yet this is the way that health care works in America today.

There’s simply a better way.  Approximately 90 percent of health care services today are classified as routine, or what is often referred to as primary care or preventive medicine.  The unfortunate reality is that placing these routine and typically low-cost services under the umbrella of health insurance has driven up the cost of providing these services exponentially, making even the basic of services out of reach for many Americans today. Moreover, the economics of using insurance for primary care force doctors to see so many patients each day that it’s difficult to spend adequate time with every one. That means that much of our health care is referred out to expensive diagnostics, specialists and hospitals when the primary care provider could have addressed most of it—if only she had more time.

We want to change that. In fact, we have. We invite you to join us in supporting fundamental change of how America approaches health care. Work with us to make quality care more affordable and accessible for anyone, increase provider and patient satisfaction, and make America healthier and stronger.  

Our mission is to create healthier patients, happier providers, and a stronger America.

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Primary Care:

Essential to Good Health

Primary care includes disease prevention, health maintenance, patient education and counseling, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses. It spans preventive care (such as immunizations and check-ups), routine treatment of common injuries and complaints, and maintenance for ongoing health issues.

Primary care is the foundation of good health. It's the key to preventing debilitating and expensive problems. A health care solution that doesn't address primary care is no solution at all.

 

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