Why Direct Primary Care is the Solution to Transform Healthcare

The Core Truth:

Transforming healthcare is simple—restore the physician-patient relationship.

When physicians are empowered to care for their patients without interference, everything else falls into place: better outcomes, lower costs, and higher satisfaction.

Every healthcare policy should be evaluated through one question:

Does it strengthen the doctor-patient relationship?

If yes—support it. If not—it must be rethought.

✅ What Is Direct Primary Care (DPC)?

DPC is a membership-based model where patients pay a flat monthly fee for unlimited

access to their primary care doctor. It removes insurance from routine care—just like car

insurance doesn’t pay for oil changes. It’s like concierge medicine but not concierge prices (average cost is about $75/mo).

📈 Why We Must Change Course

The current system is failing both financially and clinically:

• In 2005, U.S. healthcare spending was $2.2 trillion

• In 2023, it reached $4.9 trillion

• Yet, healthcare quality hit a 24-year low in 2024

• Sources: CMS Historical Data & CMS Health Spending Report PDF & (Gallup Poll, January 2024)

➡ More money. Worse outcomes.

🔄 DPC Reverses the Trend —> With DPC:

✔ Quality goes UP

✔ Costs go DOWN

✔ Patients and doctors both win

✔ Very rarely is there a business model where quality increases with cost decreasing

📊 Results That Matter

• Over 20,000 of the ~465,000 U.S. primary care physicians now use the DPC model

• DPC grew 241% from 2017–2021

• 4,000+ employers now offer DPC

• 91% of adults 25–34 would choose DPC if offered

• Sources: (Optimum Direct Care) and (Hint Health )

🙌 What Patients Get with DPC

• 🕒 Same- or next-day appointments

• 📞 24/7 direct access to their doctor (text, call, email)

• ⏱ Longer visits with a doctor who truly knows them

• 💊 Medications at wholesale prices (no markups)

• 🩺 Discounted labs and imaging

• ❌ No copays. No surprise bills. Just care that works

🩺 What Physicians Get with DPC

• Medical decisions are made based on what’s best for the patient—not billing codes

• Doctors see fewer patients and spend more time listening and healing

• Freed from bureaucracy, they can focus entirely on care

💼 What Business Get with DPC

• Reduces employer healthcare costs

• Lowers absenteeism through proactive care

• Boosts employee satisfaction and retention

• Cuts unnecessary ER visits, referrals, and overprescribing

💡 What Even the Insurance Companies Get with DPC

• Lets insurance do what it’s meant to: cover major events, not routine care

• Reduces administrative waste and micromanagement

• Encourages innovation and price transparency

💲 Why HSA Expansion Is Essential

To make DPC accessible to more families, HSA accounts must be allowed to cover DPC

memberships.

• Increases patient choice

• Makes care more affordable

• Keeps healthcare dollars in the hands of patients and doctors—not middlemen

🏛 Support These Simple, Smart Bills

Two bipartisan bills would make DPC HSA-eligible and protect the doctor-patient relationship:

• H.R. 1026 – Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA-11)

• S. 1719 – Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA) & Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)

They’re only 6 pages long and could revolutionize access to affordable, high-quality care.

⚠ Even though H.R. 1 included some DPC-friendly provisions, we must ensure the final Senate version retains these protections.

✅ The Simplicity of the Solution

Restore the doctor-patient relationship —> Empower CARE over CODING!

Direct Primary Care is the practical, proven path forward—and with the right policies, we can make it the foundation of American healthcare.

Download a PDF of this post HERE!