Montana’s Healthcare Success Story
Montana’s Healthcare Success Story
"While other states have struggled to repeal Certificate of Need laws, Montana’s legislature should be commended for taking a stand for healthcare access."
Viewpoint: Why should a doctor licensed to practice in California be unable to do so in Montana?
Viewpoint: Why should a doctor licensed to practice in California be unable to do so in Montana?
"While the European Union allows free movement of healthcare workers across its 27 member countries, the United States does not allow this movement across state borders."
Free Market Healthcare is Flourishing in Montana
Free Market Healthcare is Flourishing in Montana
"SB 101 gave DPC entrepreneurs certainty they wouldn’t be targeted with red tape from overzealous regulators, and it’s led to a booming market."
Montana’s Free Market Healthcare Renaissance
Montana’s Free Market Healthcare Renaissance
"DPC clinics are taking off all across Montana. In fact, the number of clinics has doubled since SB 101 was signed into law last year, bringing the total to at least 16 healthcare providers!"
Frontier Institute Announces Free Market Healthcare Hub
Frontier Institute Announces Free Market Healthcare Hub
The Free Market Healthcare Hub is a resource to help Montanans shop for healthcare.
Montana Poised to Lead the Nation with Affordable Health Care Options
Montana Poised to Lead the Nation with Affordable Health Care Options
"Innovations like DPC show how the health care market is adapting to the needs of patients, bypassing our broken system and building a better doctor-patient relationship."
Viewpoint: When Will Enough be Enough? Why Physicians are Quitting Medicare
Viewpoint: When Will Enough be Enough? Why Physicians are Quitting Medicare
"Physicians find themselves faced with an increasingly bureaucratic regulatory nightmare, forcing them to choose between providing good medical care or playing the 'Medicare game' to survive."
Eliminating The Pharmacy Technician Ratio
Eliminating The Pharmacy Technician Ratio
"Montana officials can keep the momentum going after eliminating pharmacy technician ratios by expanding pharmacist prescribing so that we can continue to increase health care access, especially in our rural communities."
Pharmacists Can Help Address Health Care Shortages
Pharmacists Can Help Address Health Care Shortages
"There is firm evidence that eliminating pharmacy technician ratios will allow Montana's pharmacies to do more to help patients, advance public health and bolster the resiliency of the healthcare system."
Viewpoint: What About the Poor?
Viewpoint: What About the Poor?
"Lowering costs and improving quality is actually now happening without mandates and laws, and in spite of bureaucratic obstacles."
Restoring The Patient-Doctor Relationship
Restoring The Patient-Doctor Relationship
Unencumbered by third party intervention, Fee-For-Service describes the physician-patient relationship as one that is based on the principle of mutually beneficial exchange of value between the physician and patient.
Viewpoint: What is so bad about Fee-For-Service?
Viewpoint: What is so bad about Fee-For-Service?
"By undermining the direct physician/patient relationship, bureaucrats have created the very moral hazards they supposedly try to cure"
MTLeg Viewpoint: Montana Democrats Working to Cut Red Tape in Health Care
MTLeg Viewpoint: Montana Democrats Working to Cut Red Tape in Health Care
There are laws all over the books in Montana that don’t match up to the way folks access health care now.
Viewpoint: What Is So Special About Direct Primary Care?
Viewpoint: What Is So Special About Direct Primary Care?
What makes Direct Primary Care special is that it is subject to real market forces, not legislated contrivances, and that the patient is a real customer, causing excellence and value to prevail.