Healthcare Viewpoints is a monthly series featuring original columns from Montana healthcare leaders focused on addressing the challenges presented by our broken healthcare system. The opinions of guest authors do not necessarily represent the policy positions of the Frontier Institute.
"It is possible to remove the licensing barriers preventing more physicians from practicing in Montana while maintaining high quality health care."
"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."
"Lowering costs and improving quality is actually now happening without mandates and laws, and in spite of bureaucratic obstacles."
"By undermining the direct physician/patient relationship, bureaucrats have created the very moral hazards they supposedly try to cure"
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.