“The idea is deceptively simple: Pay front line doctors a fixed monthly fee directly instead of through the byzantine insurance bureaucracy. Make the patient, rather than the paperwork, the focus of the doctor’s day. The result will be happier doctors, healthier patients and a striking reduction in wasted expense.”
—David Von Drehle, “Medicine Is About to Get Personal,” Time, Dec 2014
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