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Aug
06

The End of FairCareMD?

There comes a point in every startup’s existence where you have to decide if it is viable or not. We realized last year that FairCareMD, while an interesting idea, had failed to achieve financial success. To remedy this we embarked on a significant redesign that enables anyone anywhere to request a price, an appointment, or [...]

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Posted in Affordable Care, Consumer-Driven Care, Crowd Funding, FairCareMD, Free Market, Social Entrepreneurship | 2 Comments »
Dec
30

Is it Fair?

Is it fair that cash patinets pay 2-5 times more than your average insurance company? Is it fair that your doctor is paid $32 by insurance companies for an office visit? FairCareMD was created to fix this and it is working!

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Posted in Affordable Care, Cash-Only Medicine, Health Care Pricing, Physician Sentiment, Pricing Transparency | No Comments »
Nov
04

Clay Shirky on How to Massively Change Healthcare

Clay talks about priests, med devices, hospitals, and health 2.0, predicting a push by the people that is required to change the healthcare system.

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Posted in Affordable Care, Consumer-Driven Care, Doctors who want to be paid fairly, Evolutionary Health, Video | No Comments »
Aug
26

The First real Speaker for the Dead: Regina Holliday

I admit I am a Sci-fi/ Fantasy book geek.  I used to read the genre incessantly, so much so that my brother once said I was so creative because I spent so much time outside of reality, inhabiting the worlds of Donadlson, Von Vogt, Phillip K. Dick, Asimov and Orson Scott Card.  As a result, [...]

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Posted in Consumer-Driven Care, ePatients, Evolutionary Health, Health Care Reform, Quality Care | No Comments »
Aug
25

What to do when you are Too Clever by 25%

Wendell Potter, recovering former Cigna executive, talks about how health insurance companies and their lobbyists intend to further drive profits – through lobbying insurance commissioners and officials at the state and national levels. They want to add Administration, Executive pay, Profit, and even Lobbying to the “medical expenditures” bucket in their accounting procedures.  They need to [...]

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Posted in Healthcare Reform, Insurance | 1 Comment »
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