DPCs exacerbate disparities in care:<\/b> I will simply ask this in rebuttal- instead of citing studies. Have you actually visited a DPC practice and spoken to the patients that are members? Yes, the wealthy can afford anything. But what about all of those people you mentioned in paragraph 2 of section 3? A 90 dollar lipid panel at a hospital based lab is better for a blue-collar patient\/family than a 75-95 dollar a month primary care medical home with no copays\/deductibles and a 6 dollar lipid panel? Do the math. And as far as your inference to \u201ccherry picking\u201d patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes- that is just completely false and presumptuous. If anything, myself and my colleagues have many patients whom the current system has completely failed. But again, maybe you should actually speak with some DPC patients? Many of us actually have Medicaid patients. Being \u201cinsured\u201d does not equate to actually receiving \u201ccare.\u201d I will even provide charity care for those truly in need. Maybe policymakers and Medicaid administrators would actually work with us to make the model more accessible to Medicaid patients? Maybe the government could give those patients a voucher card for DPC no different than they do for food stamps etc?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n The bottom line Dr. Weisbart is that nothing we have done or continue to do with this top down approach to fix our broken healthcare system is working. We have many administrators, policymakers, and CEOs telling us how to fix this and plugging fingers in the dyke that is ready to collapse as people pay more for insurance than they do their mortgage! So why don\u2019t we try listening to the doctors and patients that have become the blips in the matrix on how to fix this mess for a change? The best solution to a complex problem is often the simplest. Remember Occams razor?<\/p>\n
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Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n
Jeffrey S Gold MD<\/p>\n
Owner\/CEO Gold Direct Care PC<\/p>\n
123 Pleasant St Suite 105<\/p>\n
Marblehead MA 01945<\/p>\n
DPC Coalition Steering Committee Member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday Dr. Edmond Weisbart wrote this article for Family Practice Management (http:\/\/www.aafp.org\/fpm\/2016\/0900\/p10.html#commenting) which we posted on our Facebook page last night. He basically gives reasons why he feels DPC is not a solution to our healthcare crisis. I took the liberty of writing the below rebuttal which I have since emailed to their editorial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,4,54],"tags":[51,104,27,29,30,31,32,7,20,8,33,105,35,86,22,77,9,39,72],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-primary-care","category-from-dr-gold","category-us-healthcare","tag-dpc-unaffordablecare-hdhp-deductibles-out-of-pocket-aca-iwantdirectcare-healthcareconsumer","tag-aafp","tag-cost","tag-direct-primary","tag-direct-primary-care","tag-direct-primary-care-difference","tag-doctor","tag-dpc","tag-dpc-difference","tag-education","tag-employer","tag-family-practice-management","tag-financial","tag-health-costs","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-primary-care","tag-primary-care-difference","tag-primarycare"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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