Groups leading the charge for free market healthcare
In my quest to find objectivist-leaning companies and business owners with whom to trade with, my highest priority now is healthcare providers. For anyone paying attention (which ought to be everyone here), you know the medical industry in the US is headed dangerously towards a complete government takeover with socialized medicine as a fundamental "right."
There are a lot of doctors and healthcare providers who are unhappy (or worse) about this. It's very hard for me to understand how and why they have let things go this far down the road to serfdom... but here we are my friends.
In my search for regional or local capitalist medical providers, I have found some national groups that are promoting this approach. Here's the list.
When you see who is here, please ask yourself these questions:
Do you recognize any of them as having efforts in your area?
Do you have any experience or knowledge with a group that you can share?
Some of these groups organize on a chapter level. I'm investigating options and tradeoffs to determine which group(s) would be best to engage and propose for action in my Sacramento CA region. (Being the capital for the People's State of California, it's a target-rich landscape and a trend-setter for the rest of the country.)
If you happen to know anyone near me who might want to learn about future happenings and efforts, I'd greatly appreciate a referral or introduction. A coalition or network is forming. I have some doctors and med students eager to save their careers and independent judgment (and future wealth). Thanks, Brett
Free Market Medical Association (FMMA)
https://fmma.org/providers/
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
This group has a broad and inclusive name like the AMA (Amer Medical Association) but their materials and efforts are refreshingly pro-liberty.
https://aapsonline.org/
Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation
https://d4pcfoundation.org/
They have a member who has created this:
Manual for starting up a DPC practice:
https://dpcmanual.com/
Benjamin Rush Institute
https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/
Finally, here is a doctor office in Wichita KS who I've been told about as an objectivist-principled practice. He put Atlas in his name so he must be serious about it. ;-)
Atlas MD - Josh Umbehr, MD
https://atlas.md/wichita/about-us/our...
If anyone has more suggestions I'll be grateful to learn about them. But please keep it focused on groups who are focused on IMPLEMENTING free market healthcare NOW at the STATE or LOCAL level, Not publishing white papers and lobbying in DC. Or tackling a lot of other issues besides heatlhcare. I am laser focused and need a group aligned with my goals (and values).
There are a lot of doctors and healthcare providers who are unhappy (or worse) about this. It's very hard for me to understand how and why they have let things go this far down the road to serfdom... but here we are my friends.
In my search for regional or local capitalist medical providers, I have found some national groups that are promoting this approach. Here's the list.
When you see who is here, please ask yourself these questions:
Do you recognize any of them as having efforts in your area?
Do you have any experience or knowledge with a group that you can share?
Some of these groups organize on a chapter level. I'm investigating options and tradeoffs to determine which group(s) would be best to engage and propose for action in my Sacramento CA region. (Being the capital for the People's State of California, it's a target-rich landscape and a trend-setter for the rest of the country.)
If you happen to know anyone near me who might want to learn about future happenings and efforts, I'd greatly appreciate a referral or introduction. A coalition or network is forming. I have some doctors and med students eager to save their careers and independent judgment (and future wealth). Thanks, Brett
Free Market Medical Association (FMMA)
https://fmma.org/providers/
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
This group has a broad and inclusive name like the AMA (Amer Medical Association) but their materials and efforts are refreshingly pro-liberty.
https://aapsonline.org/
Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation
https://d4pcfoundation.org/
They have a member who has created this:
Manual for starting up a DPC practice:
https://dpcmanual.com/
Benjamin Rush Institute
https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/
Finally, here is a doctor office in Wichita KS who I've been told about as an objectivist-principled practice. He put Atlas in his name so he must be serious about it. ;-)
Atlas MD - Josh Umbehr, MD
https://atlas.md/wichita/about-us/our...
If anyone has more suggestions I'll be grateful to learn about them. But please keep it focused on groups who are focused on IMPLEMENTING free market healthcare NOW at the STATE or LOCAL level, Not publishing white papers and lobbying in DC. Or tackling a lot of other issues besides heatlhcare. I am laser focused and need a group aligned with my goals (and values).
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Some primary care docs are going with concierge plans where you pay like $1500 a year to have access to one, in addition to the payments made by medicare.
You can also order other lab tests from LEF.org. You pay them, and they write you a lab slip that you use at a local blood drawing place of your choice. The results get mailed to you for your records.
My insurance company and I spend hundreds of dollars a year for my doctor to treat my type II diabetes. He regularly checks my glucose, A1c, and weighs me -- then tells me to lose a little weight. All of these factors have been constant for a decade -- I measure them myself (except the A1c which I could). But I need this to maintain my $4 prescription for Metformin.
We could do a lot with software, but everything has to carefully avoid the hint of "practicing medicine".
For an insurance-like product, you could check out the Alliance of Health Sharing Ministries. http://www.healthcaresharing.org/abou...
Scroll down for three health sharing ministries.
They qualify for legally avoiding the PPACA penalty according to the IRS website. They are much more market-oriented than PPACA-compliant plans. Technically they're not insurance. They're Christians helping one another with their medical bills. Even attending UU services counts as "Christian" since UU is an offshoot of Christianity.
There is a lot not to like about them, BUT when you dig into the details and set aside the Christian language, it actually makes sense. Their basic plans are very inexpensive, and you legally avoid the PPACA penalty.