National cash-pay provider network with standardized contracts and transparent price lists

What is needed is a national network of providers that will offer cash pay pricing around a single standardized contract to employers and a simple to understand price list for patients. Each can charge what they choose, as they do now. Employers will save money. Providers reduce admin costs significantly. Insurance companies will have to meet market prices for services. The game changes. Who puts this network together ? If the hospitals are smart , they will work together to create it. Otherwise they will be looking down the barrel of fighting single payer or universal healthcare, sooner rather than later. And if you wanna replace the ACA ? That’s also the first step. It answers the “how much does it cost “ question. The only 2 remaining questions are “how do you pay for the care “, and who takes the risk when patients can’t afford the cash prices. That’s a conversation for another post All suggestions welcome!

@mcuban I was the first DPC Family Doctor in my area 6 years ago. We now have 3 other offices. We have 3 cash cardiologists, an endocrinologist, a pulmonologist, a gastroenterologist. Hospitals are the ones trying to stop us. We have Certificate of Public Need that Hospitals won’t allow us to repeal. We have a law here in Virginia denying cash prices to sick people if they have Health “Insurance”. Which lobbyist group do you think bribed our state legislators to pass this evil law? A hospital is 4 walls and a roof where Doctors heal the sick and ease human suffering. Hospital administrators should never be allowed to be anything other than our landlords. Hospitals have screwed Healthcare up so bad and Price Gouged or patients so bad I will never trust them again. DPC is thriving. We are growing. Corporate Healthcare can’t survive without stealing from Taxpayers. Hospitals will have to continue to outlaw Free Market Medical Care to survive.