When Things Are So Bad, You Just Need To Start Over

November 13, 2023

Daniel Paull MD claims that our healthcare industry is ripe for disruption; that we have good people and technology, but a terrible system of healthcare delivery.

From/about the article: Time and money spent fighting hospital systems/health insurance/pharma is not time and money well spent. They are too resource rich to fight on their own terms.

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Our healthcare industry is ripe for disruption.

Costs have gone to the moon, while the quality of the healthcare we put out doesn’t match the amount of money and resources that are thrown in compared to other industrialized nations.

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You don’t have to look at statistics to know this fact, just reflect on the last time you went to the doctor, and what that was like, and how much money you and your employer are paying for health insurance.

Chances are, you waited for a long time, got almost no face-time with the physician and are paying a fortune in health insurance premiums.

How do we fix this whole mess?

We can’t. The system is too broken.

“How do we fix this whole mess? We can’t. The (healthcare) system is too broken.”

Time and money spent fighting hospital systems/health insurance/pharma is not time and money well spent. They are too resource-rich to fight on their own terms.

So what do we do?

The solution lies in creating a new system away from the clutches of hospital systems and insurance companies.

Direct care does just that. That is why direct care is so important, it is disrupting a system that most of us hate and that needs disrupting.

Support your local direct care doc!

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect those of SoMeDocs)

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