Health Care without Health Insurance
08/30/18 • 43 min
What if there was a way your family doctor could provide you with better care for less money and do it without using health insurance at all? Dr. Ryan Neuhofel joins us to discuss what direct primary care is and how it might benefit you.
Doctors offices spend an inordinate amount of time and expense filing paperwork with health insurance companies. By not taking health insurance, direct primary care physicians, like our guest Dr. Ryan Neuhofel, can simultaneously increase the amount of time patients get with their doctors, create price transparency for medical services, improve the work-life balance for physicians themselves, and save money doing it. It’s a radical idea when the conversation about fixing healthcare involves getting more people on health insurance and spending more money in so doing, but it could transform how 80% of Americans access healthcare for 80% of their lives.
What is direct primary care? Is it a more efficient way to deliver care? What is “telemedicine”? Has primary care become a gate-keeper rather than an actual provider? In the future, could we have a system that is like “uber for doctors”?
Further Reading:
Direct Primary Care website
Dr. Ryan Neuhofel website
Wanna Unbreak Medicine? Dr. Ryan Neuhofel Shows Us How, Against Medical Advice Episode 025
Building an Alliance for the Future - Keynote: Dr. Ryan Neuhofel
Related Content:
Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, Free Thoughts Episode
How to Fix Health Care, Free Thoughts Episode
Why Can’t You Email Your Doctor?, Free Thoughts Episode
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What if there was a way your family doctor could provide you with better care for less money and do it without using health insurance at all? Dr. Ryan Neuhofel joins us to discuss what direct primary care is and how it might benefit you.
Doctors offices spend an inordinate amount of time and expense filing paperwork with health insurance companies. By not taking health insurance, direct primary care physicians, like our guest Dr. Ryan Neuhofel, can simultaneously increase the amount of time patients get with their doctors, create price transparency for medical services, improve the work-life balance for physicians themselves, and save money doing it. It’s a radical idea when the conversation about fixing healthcare involves getting more people on health insurance and spending more money in so doing, but it could transform how 80% of Americans access healthcare for 80% of their lives.
What is direct primary care? Is it a more efficient way to deliver care? What is “telemedicine”? Has primary care become a gate-keeper rather than an actual provider? In the future, could we have a system that is like “uber for doctors”?
Further Reading:
Direct Primary Care website
Dr. Ryan Neuhofel website
Wanna Unbreak Medicine? Dr. Ryan Neuhofel Shows Us How, Against Medical Advice Episode 025
Building an Alliance for the Future - Keynote: Dr. Ryan Neuhofel
Related Content:
Better Choice: Healthcare Solutions for America, Free Thoughts Episode
How to Fix Health Care, Free Thoughts Episode
Why Can’t You Email Your Doctor?, Free Thoughts Episode
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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China’s old reputation when it came to tech was that of being the premier global manufacturer of knockoffs, not a site for innovative development. But China today is adopting new tech at truly incredible rates that surpasses most other countries. Rather than just talking about drone delivery, companies like JD are actually doing it. More people in China use mobile payments and participate in one-stop-shop digital ecosystems than almost the entire population of the US and Europe combined.
On the other hand, while the technology economy in China is thriving, the political economy remains restrictive. Google had its secret plans to cooperate in the “Great Firewall of China” internet censorship scheme leaked. However, Chinese activists have used the blockchain to get around official media blackouts on vaccine scares and sexual assault scandals
What is WeChat? Do we view ourselves as the leader of technological advances? What is leap-frogging? Is our established infrastructure getting in the way of our own ability to innovate? Does China represent the new “right way to do things”? What is Google’s Dragonfly Project?
Further Reading:
How E-Commerce Is Transforming Rural China, written by Jiayang Fan
Letter from Shenzhen, written by Xiaowei R. Wang
Chinese Citizens Are Using Blockchain to Warn Each Other of Unsafe Vaccines, written by Kristin Houser
North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground Is Transforming a Closed Society, written by Jieun Baek
The Art of Escaping Censorship, written by Jessica Loudis
The employee backlash over Google’s censored search engine for China, explained by Alexia Fernández Campbell
Related Content:
Fifty Years after the Cultural Revolution, written by David Boaz
Innovative Maintenance, Maintaining Innovation, written by Pamela J. Hobart
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Augur(ing) Assassinations
Augur represents a new type of prediction market. It’s decentralized nature allows users to stay anonymous, which may be troubling for law enforcement or other state agents if the bets placed are threatening in nature. Right now, it only has a small number of users, but it has the potential to gain traction.
In these prediction markets you have the ability to place a bet, using a type of cryptocurrency, on a future action such as; whether a Supreme Court nominee will be appointed by a certain date in time. However, Augur may also host betting schemes that may seem “unsavory” to some Americans, like predicting when someone could die, otherwise known as an assassination market.
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Further Reading
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Crypto-Convict Won’t Recant, written by Wired Staff
Gambling Can Save Science, written by Alex Tabarrok
Are We All ‘Harmless Torturers’ Now?, written by Paul Bloom and Matthew Jordan
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How Egalitarianism Comes from Conflict (And Why It Matters), written by Pamela J. Hobart
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