{"id":3410,"date":"2021-12-14T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2024-02-20T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T14:51:22","slug":"what-is-free-market-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/what-is-free-market-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Free Market Healthcare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free market healthcare is the process that enables buyers (consumers) of healthcare services to connect directly with sellers (providers) for cash price care. On the other hand, healthcare consumerism refers to the mechanism whereby individuals obtain free market care.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Digital healthcare<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital healthcare is the fusion of digital technology with healthcare. Digital health comes with many potential benefits for the consumer:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Convenience<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frictionless experience<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online scheduling, payments, prescription refills and test results<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitoring and self care devices<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less waiting time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuts administrative costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Barriers to digital health and free market medical care<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By far, the biggest barriers to digital health and free market healthcare are the many burdensome State and Federal laws favoring the health insurance industry. These self-serving laws are in urgent need of revision to favor digital health and consumer-directed care. Additionally, many of the HIPAA laws are in need of review so that patients and customers are not constrained by laws pretending to protect them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Healthcare consumerism<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthcare consumerism is already working in the cosmetics, infertility and weight-loss arenas since the insurance industry is not usually involved in these sectors. Because patients and doctors connect directly here in a free market cash price system there has been a stabilization or a lowering of costs for these services. In contrast, insurance-based healthcare is severely troubled by a lack of market forces and annual cost increases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benefits of free market healthcare for consumers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the current model for healthcare consumers are shackled by insurance-based pricing and rules. Additionally, patients often spend much more time filling out paperwork about their healthplan and waiting than getting quality face-to-face time with providers. The many benefits of free market healthcare include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No confusing, one-sided health plan contracts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No junk health plans<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No bait and switch games<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No controlling middlemen<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No inefficient, costly administrative services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No artificial insurance-based pricing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No artificial insurance-based rules<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No annual price hikes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No copays, deductibles, pre-existing and non-covered services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No narrow provider networks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No surprise bills<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No silly open enrollment periods<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuts healthcare fraud<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As-needed care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You get to budget and manage your care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your body, your rules<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Benefits of free market healthcare for employers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthcare costs are out of control with a market size now at a whopping $3.6 trillion dollars. One third of this market is wasted on inefficient administrative services trying to control mostly routine care. In fact, two thirds of all the healthcare delivered is generally affordable routine office-based or outpatient and should not be under the control of the health insurance industry. Because of crippling insurance-based pricing and rules many small business owners (like large companies) have chosen to self-insure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encourages employers and employees to seek providers offering cost-transparent pricing, particularly for bundled services<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encourages the adoption of healthy lifestyle choices by employees<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bypasses the bloated and inefficient insurance-based pricing and rules<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helps promote market forces and cost-containment in healthcare<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Benefits of free market healthcare for providers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most doctors sign one-sided health plan contracts in order to gain access to patients. As a consequence, providers have had to establish a costly practice management infrastructure in order to see patients controlled by health plans. Not only have these onerous rules and inefficiencies driven physician overhead to 70 percent but the insurance industry rewards providers with delayed and arbitrarily discounted payments. With free market care providers get the following benefits:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: 1.6;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No insurance-based pricing or rules<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No one-sided contracts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No profiteering middlemen<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No non-medical intermediary gatekeepers determining authorizations for care<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No referrals or authorizations are necessary<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No complex coding requirements<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No compulsory EMR<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No claims filing or claims challenges<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No discounted and delayed payments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No payment clawbacks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lower overhead<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Better margins<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast payments<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthdrum.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.HEALTHdrum.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Come join our healthcare community and discover how <\/span><b>consumer-directed, self pay care<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can save you a bundle of money and put healthcare control back in your hands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/healthdrum.com\/blog\/the-problem-u-s-healthcare-costs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">healthdrum.com\/blog\/the-problem-u-s-healthcare-costs\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Written by HEALTHdrum<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free market healthcare is the process that enables buyers (consumers) of healthcare services to connect directly with sellers (providers) for cash price care. 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Subsequently, he completed fellowship training in Pediatric and Adult Reconstructive Urology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. During his time there he also undertook NIH sponsored, pioneering research on \u201cUrinary Bladder Reinnervation\u201d earning him the honor of a Masters of Surgery Diploma through the University of Otago, New Zealand. Dr Vorstman returned to Miami to become a board-certified faculty member in the department of urology, Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami. Eventually, he left academic practice, moved north to Coral Springs and established Florida Urological Associates pa (www.urologyweb.com) in 1987. Dr. Vorstman is passionate about consumer-directed healthcare and helping men diagnosed with prostate cancer navigate the minefield of prostate cancer misinformation. After retiring and leaving colleagues to continue the urology practice, he became founder and CEO of a healthcare platform that connects buyers and sellers of routine, cash pay healthcare services - www.HEALTHdrum.com\/ Through this platform he also enables colleagues to reclaim their profession from health industry exploitation. 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