The U.S. Health Care System Isn’t Built for Primary Care
The article was brought to you by: CEO and cofounder of Elation Health, which offers an electronic health records system for independent primary care that strengthens the relationship between patients and physicians.<p>Healthcare in the US is completely broken. Primary doctors do not have an incentive to produce good results. They are being squeezed by the corporate overlords and insurance companies to do bare minimum with patients. Each hospital network has their own medical records software. The care is extremely fragmented.<p>Records need to be centralized. Primary care physicians should be required to spend more time with patients and not be punished for it. If issue is difficult they should be allowed time for research, but that doesn&#x27;t make money....seeing patients does.<p>In the end, get rid of the middle man, the insurance companies. Quit paying specialty doctors $600k, and offer free education. I would love to go into medicine to help people, but I&#x27;m not going to go into debt, grind for free doing insane hours and hope to get a decent job in the end. If I could get a free medical degree and a salary of around $150k I would do it in a heartbeat. Current healthcare is so commercialized it is disgusting.