Frontier Institute Statement In Support Of SB 550
Legislation will spur employer adoption of the innovative and affordable direct healthcare model
Meet Montana’s Newest Direct Patient Care Provider
"That is what makes DPC so special, it’s a win-win for both patients and providers."
Celebrating Montana’s Wins for Healthcare Freedom
"These reforms are expanding access to high quality, affordable healthcare without the need for strict government mandates or increases in taxes – reaffirming the notion that sometimes the best solution to the problems Montanans face is for the government to just get out of the way."
MtLeg Viewpoint: Health Care Reforms Benefiting Montanans
"All three of these major reforms are empowering Montanans with more freedom to manage their health, access services and save money."
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
"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
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
"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."
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?
"By undermining the direct physician/patient relationship, bureaucrats have created the very moral hazards they supposedly try to cure"
How Montana Is Revolutionizing Healthcare—With Markets
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.