Mark Twain said “There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope." Paying cash for primary care is not new, but it's a model that's resurging after decades of being overly tangled with insurance*. Direct primary care (DPC) is a cash-based membership model for more rational delivery of care, benefiting both doctors and patients. It reduces care to the fewest number of intermediaries and stodgy layers, while ...
