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White Paper: Alternative American Medical System Funding Model
I am Dr. Nicholas Beaulieu and I have been a practicing Family Physician for twenty-eight years. I believe I have unique insight into the financial models that fund the current American medical system. I propose an alternative funding model introducing a public and private partnership that does not require a major overhaul of the existing
IT’S NOT HEALTH INSURANCE . . . .
I suspect my patients are tired of hearing the mantra; ‘It is not Health insurance, it is Wealth Insurance’. The topic usually comes up during any conversation regarding how eventually my practice will be paid for the services we provide. Many patients are just waking up to the fact that they personally will have to pay
GOOD DOCTORS DON’T TAKE INSURANCE
Though this is not uniformly the case there are some very good reasons why the topic bears discussion particularly in the realm of Primary Care. Working for a large corporation (like a hospital) or an insurance company subjects the physician to the vagaries of the profit motive filtered through that entities ambitions. These ‘third party’
