Where Obamacare Leaves Questions, Direct Primary Care May Offer Answers

Free-Market Reform | October 2, 2015

By Patrick Ishmael | Read Time 1 minute minutes

With its passage in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) set out to remake American health care, but in many respects the ACA didn’t change the health care paradigm at all; it simply doubled-down on a broken, decades-old status quo that placed health “coverage” as a national priority above both limiting health care costs and enhancing health care access. After establishing the problem with maintaining an insurancecentered care mindset, this paper explores a promising medical practice model, direct primary care (DPC), which could deliver on the cost and access promises broken by the ACA.

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Patrick Ishmael

Patrick Ishmael is the director of government accountability at the Show-Me Institute. He is a native of Kansas City and graduate of Saint Louis University, where he earned honors degrees in finance and political science and a law degree with a business concentration. His writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Weekly Standard, and dozens of publications across the state and country. Ishmael is a regular contributor to Forbes and HotAir.com. His policy work predominantly focuses on tax, health care, and constitutional law issues. He is a member of the Missouri Bar.

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