Montana Free Market Medical Association

07/19/2023

This challenging subject is important when thinking about health care policy.

We all bear the responsibility to critically examine these policies and to resist when they infringe upon liberties, ethical standards or the rights of individuals.

03/07/2023

Patients and customers deserve full honesty and clarity.

02/07/2023

How healthcare disintermediation can restore the doctor/patient relationship.
Doctors Keith Smith, Lee Gross, and Kathleen Brown are pioneers in this movement.

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"There are several models that have successfully eliminated the intermediaries in healthcare and restored the doctor-patient relationship."

12/06/2022

Is anybody not in favor of honesty in healthcare? There is a lot of dishonesty in healthcare. One antidote: courage.

"This is when another virtue of courage is needed, and it starts with self-honesty in recognizing when we are part of dishonesty because of employment, business interests and law."

11/11/2022

These dramatic Medicare cuts combined with inflation are bad for physicians, but also bad for hospitals and for patients. Medicare is becoming Medicaid. Check out the graph; it’s pretty shocking. A lot of physicians are also heavily in debt, due to their education. It’s a problem without an easy answer.

"Inflation acts like a hidden tax which erodes the buying power of people’s income and savings and eats away at the ability to achieve long-term financial goals."

10/11/2022

Honesty is very important in health care, and unfortunately, is often lacking.

"A foundation of trust is necessary for the best practice of medicine."

07/15/2022

Politics and money should not determine what is “good science”. Good science, at it’s heart, is continually questioning and seeking objective truth. It requires honesty and integrity.

‘People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.’