Jim Capretta, Bringing competitive direct primary care to Medicare

Today we catch up with James C. Capretta, a resident fellow and holds the Milton Friedman Chair at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies health care, entitlement, and US budgetary policy, as well as global trends in aging, health, and retirement programs.

 

In this interview we discuss the following topics:

 

+ Bringing competitive direct primary care to Medicare

+ CMS, Medicare and the use of Direct Primary Care with HSAs

+ Positive Moves Forward in Policy for the Future of Free Market Healthcare

+ The Affordable Care Act and the future of healthcare policy initiatives

+ Retail Healthcare, Convenient Care Clinics and How Non-Traditional Primary Care Will Be Approached by Policy Makers and Consumers

+ Policy and Primary Care And the Adoption of Medical Marijuana in the U.S.

+ How/Why/Should/Can Doctors Get Better Involved In Policy?

+ Where are you excited about where healthcare is going?

 

Related Links Discussed In This Episode

 

https://www.aei.org/scholar/james-c-capretta/

https://www.aei.org/publication/bringing-competitive-direct-primary-care-to-medicare/

 

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