Dr. Wendy Molaska offers many points of view about Direct Primary Care.  In just over 35 minutes, we touch on all of the important aspects of DPC, examined through a variety of lenses including

·         Physician and patient perspectives in DPC and traditional primary care

·         Physicians employed by a big system vs practicing independently

·         Physician incentives in DPC vs in the “sick care” system

·         Copays and deductibles are barriers to primary care access; flat DPC fees remove the barrier 

·         Why “it feels so different” to spend time and energy figuring something out that directly benefits the patient vs spending the same time and energy to save the insurance company a few bucks

·         What DPC advocacy looks like in a Medical Society and in Academic Medicine

·         Scope of practice, transparency and frustration

·         Physician burnout and workforce shortages

·         Educating the public and the patient about DPC

·         Primary care in rural vs urban areas; doctors are returning to rural hometowns as small practices are sustainable in a DPC model 

·         Medicaid debit cards for DPC fees improve the health of high risk patients and avoid expensive emergency department and hospital care