Hospitals cry all the time about having no money, yet the cranes keep operating to build new wings or extensions. The executives still get paid exorbitant salaries. Employed doctors’ salaries haven’t changed in years, maybe decades.
The insurance companies raise premiums every year. They have to make a profit, you know. They cry about their financials so they cut reimbursement to physicians and use delay tactics like prior authorizations to destroy healthcare.
Both of these entities pretend to fight each other for the optics.
The only losers have been doctors and nurses.
Doing Direct Primary Care enables you to leave them both behind to act out their coordinated and bogus “brawls” for others. Let them perform their show while you find freedom, make a good living, do real medicine, and truly help patients.
Dr. Farrago is a retired family physician based in Forest, Virginia. Since 2021, he has run DPCnews.com, a leading resource for the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement.
He is the author of three best-selling books on Direct Primary Care:
The Official Guide to Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice
The Direct Primary Care Doctor’s Daily Motivational Journal
Slowing the Churn in Direct Primary Care (While Also Keeping Your Sanity)
In 2016, Dr. Farrago conceived the idea for the Direct Primary Care Alliance and co-founded the organization alongside other pioneering DPC physicians. He is widely recognized as a leading expert in the DPC model and frequently lectures to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians on how to successfully start and run their own DPC practices.Dr. Farrago sold his Direct Primary Care practice in October 2020 but continues to receive care there as a patient.
