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Groups leading the charge for free market healthcare

Posted by BrettRocketSci 6 years, 5 months ago to Business
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In my quest to find objectivist-leaning companies and business owners with whom to trade with, my highest priority now is healthcare providers. For anyone paying attention (which ought to be everyone here), you know the medical industry in the US is headed dangerously towards a complete government takeover with socialized medicine as a fundamental "right."

There are a lot of doctors and healthcare providers who are unhappy (or worse) about this. It's very hard for me to understand how and why they have let things go this far down the road to serfdom... but here we are my friends.

In my search for regional or local capitalist medical providers, I have found some national groups that are promoting this approach. Here's the list.

When you see who is here, please ask yourself these questions:
Do you recognize any of them as having efforts in your area?
Do you have any experience or knowledge with a group that you can share?

Some of these groups organize on a chapter level. I'm investigating options and tradeoffs to determine which group(s) would be best to engage and propose for action in my Sacramento CA region. (Being the capital for the People's State of California, it's a target-rich landscape and a trend-setter for the rest of the country.)

If you happen to know anyone near me who might want to learn about future happenings and efforts, I'd greatly appreciate a referral or introduction. A coalition or network is forming. I have some doctors and med students eager to save their careers and independent judgment (and future wealth). Thanks, Brett

Free Market Medical Association (FMMA)
https://fmma.org/providers/

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
This group has a broad and inclusive name like the AMA (Amer Medical Association) but their materials and efforts are refreshingly pro-liberty.
https://aapsonline.org/

Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation
https://d4pcfoundation.org/

They have a member who has created this:
Manual for starting up a DPC practice:
https://dpcmanual.com/

Benjamin Rush Institute
https://www.benjaminrushinstitute.org/

Finally, here is a doctor office in Wichita KS who I've been told about as an objectivist-principled practice. He put Atlas in his name so he must be serious about it. ;-)
Atlas MD - Josh Umbehr, MD
https://atlas.md/wichita/about-us/our...

If anyone has more suggestions I'll be grateful to learn about them. But please keep it focused on groups who are focused on IMPLEMENTING free market healthcare NOW at the STATE or LOCAL level, Not publishing white papers and lobbying in DC. Or tackling a lot of other issues besides heatlhcare. I am laser focused and need a group aligned with my goals (and values).


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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree with that. I am careful to make sure that when I do speak out, I do in an effective way and dont just alert the statists that I am the enemy. The USA is not nearly as bad as Nazi Germany, but you can see how Snowden was treated when he "spoke out" against the illegal things the NSA was doing. I could sense the hatred that Obama had for him. I am sure he would have been railroaded into a dark hole forever if he came back to the USA. I voted for Trump because of his anti establishment stance, but I dont think even he had any idea of the depth of the swamp. I didnt think he was an intellectually consistent defender of freedom, however, but that he could perhaps slow the seemingly incessant march of our country to socialism.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The effectiveness of speaking out depends on what you say, who you say it too, and the time frame of the result. If you don't think it makes any difference then you have adopted determinism, under which any thought or communication, including posting here, is futile. Those who do spread ideas, including the wrong ones, are having the effect.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are very few times that speaking out really accomplishes anything, however. I voted for Trump to get taxes reduced and obamacare repealed, but we can see that the swamp is too deep for that. Obamacare will morph into medicaid for everyone, and even if taxes are reduced for certain favored groups, spending will only increase so we all pay in terms of inflation. ALONGSIDE NIGHT is appealing because if you are quiet about it, you can actually avoid some of the regulations and taxation just because the government isnt YET able to monitor each and every action that a citizen takes. That wont last forever of course, as the state gets more and more powerful, so living quietly in plain sight has alimia limitedlife.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Statism outlaws freedom and punishes you for it. In a mixed system of freedom combined with controls you cannot think and act as if the controls don't exist and have no punitive effect on you, as if anarchy would be tolerated. To advocate open defiance of the law (good or bad) will get you into a lot more trouble than you started with under the original regulations. You pay the exorbitant taxes because you are forced to, not willingly, but that doesn't mean you have to like them and can't speak out.
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  • Posted by ewv 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is so much fraud on the internet with so little accountability of any kind that foreign medical sites where you can't verify reputation are especially risky.

    Reputation always matters. It's dangerous when people ignore it because they think some government agency is doing it for them. It's worse when they become accustomed to tacitly downplaying reputation where no one is watching at all.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Mayo Clinic is doing the same thing at 6k per year. Gives access to their health system if you are 65+ and are restricted to Medicare. Otherwise they aren’t taking new government insurance patients any more
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One clever workaround is concierge medicine where essentially you get a membership to a family doctor (MDVIP.com) which grants you very timely access to avoid the obamadelays. Then your insurance or Medicare reimburses the doctor with the otherwise insufficient payments. It could expand to specialists. Mayo Clinic is also offering it. A way to get better care currently
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  • Posted by 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks for the details! The monthly charge pays for the group overhead & ops I assume. Nice. That seems very replicatable (real word?) Sounds like a free market solution at work.
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  • Posted by 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Monitor by the government and regulatory authorities - true. But don't forget this is everyone's individual responsibility in the first place and in the end!!
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