What if we could show a way to provide comprehensive healthcare and prescription drugs to all Americans, for less than we spend today?
- Without relying on socialized medicine and keeping government out of the healthcare delivery business,
- In a way that all Americans would pay their own way, proportionate to income, irrespective of source,
- In a way that all businesses, both large and small, could afford to provide healthcare coverage to their employees and their families,
- that would return control of the practice of medicine to the primary care physician
- That would give patients the freedom to choose their primary care physician and the freedom to change that choice whenever they think it necessary.
- That would eliminate the middle men (health insurance, managed care, Medicare, and Medicaid) so that all health care dollars flow to actual providers of care,
- Where most Americans would see a reduction in their out-of-pocket costs,
- Where the growth of aggregate healthcare costs can be reduced to equal the CPI,
- And which, therefore, would save the American people as much as $6 Trillion over the next ten years,
- That would provide real incentives for doctors to practice preventive medicine and to educate patients about healthy lifestyles,
- That would incent young physicians to choose primary care rather than a subspecialty practice,
- That would rely on free market forces to drive price, quality, and accountabili,
- That will provide real incentives for young physicians to choose to practice medicine in communities that currently have limited access to healthcare providers,
- That changes healthcare from a transaction-driven system (Fee-for-service) to one that is relationship driven,
- That incents providers to practice a team approach to healthcare delivery in which all services to patients are coordinated by the primary care physician, and
- In a way that your 90-year old grandmother can understand.
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