Personalized Care Act Could Open the Door for Direct Care

Direct primary care (DPC) gets rave reviews from patients and doctors. So why aren’t more people gravitating to this affordable, no-hassle care that provides care outside that of the health insurance maze? Dr. Lee Gross, a direct primary care physician in southwest Florida, discusses how the Personalized Care Act can open the market for more choice, including better access to DPC. Dr. Gross describes how small business were the ones who encouraged him into opening a DPC practice for their employees, and he has not looked back.  

 

The Personalized Care Act, reintroduced in Congress by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), and the U.S. Senate by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will address one of the biggest obstacles to DPC: freedom. The government restricts health savings accounts to high deductible health insurance plans, which removes options for people who don’t have employer health care and don’t want government plans or be confined to Medicaid. The bills also give workers without employer health insurance the same tax advantages to pay for health care that are now only given to employers. 

 

Useful links:

 

DPC Action:  https://dpcaction.com/personalized-care-act-for-healthcare-transformation/

 

How Four Pages Could Transform Health Care, January 1, 2020, Townhall 

 

Congress has a Prescription for Health Care’s Sickly Status Quo, January 27. 202, Real Clear Policy

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AnneMarie Schieber

AnneMarie Schieber brings decades of experience as an investigative news reporter to the forefront as host of Health Care News from The Heartland Institute. Along with hosting the podcast, Schieber is the managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland's monthly newspaper for health care reform. Before her work in the liberty movement, Schieber spent several decades at television stations in Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Pennsylvania. The Associated Press awarded her the top honor of "Best Individual Reporting" for being the first reporter to call attention to government efforts to subsidize spending by increasing automobile fines, typically on low-income motorists.

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