Patients are struggling to get the medications they need — on time, at the right price, and with confidence in their safety. As Charles Sauer writes in the Boston Herald:
“The real issue is red tape – numerous regulations that prevent the healthcare market from innovating and hinder current innovations from flourishing. Bureaucratic delays after bureaucratic delays don’t just cost patients time; they also cost them their health.”
One promising solution: empowering Direct Primary Care physicians to dispense medications directly.
“DPC doctors can deliver medicines to patients more efficiently while informing them of any adverse side effects as they take them… this method of pharmaceutical dispensing is also cheaper.”
Practices like Atlas MD in Kansas already offer drugs at cost, beating prices from Walmart, Amazon, and even Mark Cuban’s pharmacy startup. According to one study, a nationwide shift to point-of-care dispensing could save Medicare up to $20 billion annually.
“Getting your correct medication should be as easy as asking your doctor to prescribe it and then picking it up on the way out the door.”
Read the full piece in the Boston Herald here.
