Abstract

Review Article

StatesCare–The Cure for “Patient” Healthcare

Deane Waldman*

Published: 20 October, 2020 | Volume 4 - Issue 1 | Pages: 039-044

Fifty years of Washington’s fixes for healthcare have brought us to the brink: insurance is unaffordable and care is unavailable, certainly not in time. The way to make healthcare work for We the Patients (all Americans) is to take healthcare authority away from third-parties – government and insurance – and restore the direct doctor-patient connection with no bureaucrat in between. The cure for patient Healthcare is StatesCare combined with market-based medicine. Financial models confirm this approach will make care both affordable and accessible in a timely manner. 

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