"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."
"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."
"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."
"Lowering costs and improving quality is actually now happening without mandates and laws, and in spite of bureaucratic obstacles."
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.
"By undermining the direct physician/patient relationship, bureaucrats have created the very moral hazards they supposedly try to cure"
There are laws all over the books in Montana that don’t match up to the way folks access health care now.
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.
Reducing restrictive regulation could allow for Montanans to reap the benefits of lower hearing aid costs and provide greater access to rural communities.
We don’t have to move mountains to start mending the damage done by onerous regulations. In this case, all it takes is one word.
Montanans are free to drive to another state to receive care from a medical provider of their choice. Why are they not free to do the same virtually?
If direct pay models became commonplace, they would empower and liberate both patients and doctors and do more to bring down costs than other healthcare reforms.
Government interventions that restricted supply and distorted demand laid the groundwork for the vicious cycle of increasing healthcare costs Americans know today.
"Reducing the red tape and burdensome regulations imposed on the health care system has proven an effective and cost-conscious way to expand access in Montana, but more needs to be done."