December 5, 2024

States can make health care more patient-centered

Insurance companies often use their substantial leverage to pressure doctors into restrictive contracts. These contracts can allow insurers to refuse to pay in-network specialists simply because the referral to see them came from a non...

August 7, 2019

What Republicans and Democrats can do to fix our health care

Anyone watching the most recent round of Democratic presidential primary debates should recognize that in both the first and second sets of debates, all the candidates worked from the assumption that Americans face a binary choice: government-run hea...

April 10, 2019

Central planning destroys health care innovation

I am a direct primary care (DPC) physician.  DPC doctors have determined ways to improve health care access, include telemedicine, and offer deeply discounted rates on medications, labs, and imaging for a low-cost monthly membership, simila...