Direct Primary Care: A Market Response to System Failure

Описание: Direct Primary Care and concierge medicine are often framed as boutique healthcare. This video treats them as an institutional signal.

We analyze how these models reorganize primary care by removing insurance from the center of the doctor–patient relationship: patients pay a predictable membership fee, physicians reduce panel sizes, and care is financed through access rather than coded claims. The result is longer visits, lower administrative burden, and improved continuity—driven less by “better doctors” than by different incentives.

We also examine the trade-offs: affordability, two-tier dynamics, workforce diversion from traditional practice, and why these models typically coexist with catastrophic insurance rather than replace it.

The central claim is structural: when the mainstream system misprices time and burdens care with billing and compliance, markets route around the institution. DPC is one such workaround—and a diagnostic tool for where the prevailing model fails.

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