Category: Opinion

Insurance math means spending $500/month on health insurance premiums and then paying for all of your healthcare out of pocket

I seem to be in a battle on LinkedIn with people criticizing Direct Primary Care. I used to hit these

Mark Cuban has been active in the DPC and cash pay space recently. I wrote these 20 truths of DPC on

I’ve been doing this blog for years now. I have seen it grow because Direct Primary Care is growing. News

Author: Amy Walsh, MD I just finished reading today’s DPC News.  Dr Purcell ranted a bit.  I need to do the

Let’s talk about referrals and how pathetic other specialists’ offices can be. Poor information, poor follow-up, poor communication with our

A thought experiment for physicians My son listens to those “What if…?” videos on YouTube Kids – the ones that

We are living in a world where it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what is real from what is not.

Recently, there have been two awesome posts discussing the potential downfall of DPC. Emily O’Roarke wrote Is DPC Scalable? here

The question itself is grotesque. What is scalability other than corporate exploitation? What’s beautiful about DPC is removal of the

This story in the Washington Post exemplifies why our healthcare system is so screwed up and why Direct Primary Care

I have previously written about Jon Roosevelt and ARCS Health a little while back. Dan Swartz, MD, who bought my

In a previous post I discussed how consultants and gurus prey on physicians seeking authentic alternatives to traditional healthcare models.

I’m making some memes for the blog, and these “DPC Administrator” memes are fun, because there are no DPC administrators–certainly

I just love it when nondoctors, executives, business people start jumping on the Direct Primary Care Bandwagon. The steps usually