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At HEALTHdrum we have a customer-led organization with a simple purpose – creating a community where anyone, anywhere can connect with routine office-based or outpatient healthcare that\u2019s both affordable and under your control.<\/span><\/p>\n

HEALTHdrum\u2019s purpose for healthcare consumers.<\/b><\/p>\n

To support consumer-directed healthcare. We don\u2019t have provider networks, tiered-pricing, copays, deductibles, annoying and inconvenient referrals or surprise bills. There are no pre-existing issues, non-covered conditions, artificial barriers or gatekeepers controlling your care. And, unlike health plans our cost of care is not based on age, zip code, sex, occupation or other discriminatory factors.<\/span><\/p>\n

HEALTHdrum\u2019s purpose for employers.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

To give employees alternatives to costly and rule-based health insurance plans covering routine care that have failed to improve overall health.<\/span><\/p>\n

HEALTHdrum\u2019s purpose for providers.<\/b><\/p>\n

To give them a direct patient-provider connection and bypass the many troubling layers of inefficiency and bureaucracy that have only driven physician-practice overhead to 70 percent and promoted burnout. With HEALTHdrum you don\u2019t have to deal with interfering non-medical intermediaries creating barriers and playing doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n

HEALTHdrum\u2019s mission<\/b> is to reshape healthcare and help people connect directly with the caring community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Visit <\/span>www.HEALTHdrum.com<\/span><\/a> Come join our healthcare community and discover how <\/span>consumer-directed, self pay care<\/b> can save you a bundle of money and put healthcare control back in your hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more.<\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-insurance-companies-control-your-medical-care-62540<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Written by HEALTHdrum<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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