Oh, like the VA or NHS?
SNORT.
No thanks.
okay. best wishes and good luck with all that.
“Our group does not come to this problem with answers.”
All they have to do is be efficient. Most insurance companies are bloated and antiquated.
There were a lot of things I disagreed with about California.
But one thing I liked, was Kaiser Permanente. A very well operated Healthcare company in my view.
This sounds like a rival, of sorts. I wish them good luck with this effort.
This would be an impressive act, if the CEOs, directors, and “ALL” staff at these sponsoring companies pledged to place their families under this plan.
/color me waiting
Interesting, wish them well
Good for them. Experimentation is necessary for innovation.
Sweet! I cant wait to have a DR dropped at my house by a drone....
Does medicaid cover the return fees and restocking charges when you send your doctor back?
Crony capitalism will play a HUGE part of their business model.
I’m sure quite a few elected officials have already been notified of the upcoming IPO.
The catch is that the whole facility is cash-based. It doesn't take insurance of any kind. Not Aetna. Not Cigna. Not Medicare or Medicaid. Patients or their employers pay whatever price is listed online.
To Villa, the model seemed refreshingly subversive. The Surgery Center would charge $19,000 for his whole-knee replacement, a discount of nearly 50% on what Villa expected to be charged at his local hospital. And that price would include everything from airfare to the organization's only facility, in Oklahoma City, to medications and physical therapy. If unforeseen complications arose during or after the procedure, the Surgery Center would cover those costs.
We used to have those. They were the religious charity hospitals. Then the government got into the health business...
I have been advocating not for profit business model as a workable alternative to what we have now. Blue cross and Blue shield used to be not for profit and they switched business models in the early 1990’s. The service went down hill and the prices started rising double digits each year.
The free market will eventually help with healthcare solutions once the rules of the game stop being a moving target and real competition is introduced.
an initiative by three of the people who made out the best in the strip mining of the American economy
If you get Prime Healthcare from Amazon you get cured in 2 days or less. If not satisfied you can return the pills and either get a refund or other pills for what ails ya.
Your doctor’s name is Alexa.
I hope it works out exceedingly well. Medicine costs way too much. The promotions to use even more medicine and medical care are shameless and shameful in their self-promotion.
Much of medicine is a high cost solution in search of a low cost problem. Follow the money.
I hope I never need it and can just die quietly in my sleep.
Truthfully, I am hoping that somebody creates a “health care census” business. The idea is that mostly corporate employers have their employees get a thorough check up every 10 years, including things like:
A whole body X-Ray.
A whole body MRI.
Very detailed blood, urine and stool specimen analysis.
Full dental X-Ray panel.
DNA analysis.
EKG/EEG.
etc.
The first time, unless they spot something dramatic, will be the baseline for future reference.
“free from profit-making incentives”
So with no incentive for the R&D for their health care solutions to have a decent return on investment (ROI), are we to assume that Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan Chase are going to just write off losses on their “solutions”?
Either the leaders of those three organizations have let their Liberal/Progressive political zeal make them economically naive when it comes to health care solutions, or they are willing to make their parent organizations eat all the losses in their new venture. If it is the latter, then how long will their stock holders keep holding their stocks?