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Episode 144: How Does Direct Access Primary Care Work?

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The Impossibility of Regulating Primary Care

Pennsylvania has a special bill that says if you do direct primary care, it doesn't count as an insurance product. "I've had to opt out of Medicare and I was pretty much just sending a letter," he said. Do you imagine that this sort of a model could be expanded to include the sorts of things that would happen in a hospital? That is more difficult because part of primary care is that we're the front line, but we're also very economical in how they do things.

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