MediBid: The Travelocity of Healthcare?
PASO ROBLES, CA – At a time when ObamaCare threatens Americans and their progeny with unbearable healthcare costs, a company called Medibid may do for healthcare consumers what StubHub, PriceLine and eBay have done for consumers. By linking patients to doctors who set their own prices, Medibid provides an international platform that takes the middlemen out of your healthcare decisions.
HealthcareIT reports:
“MediBid helps physicians to expand their fee-for-service practice through private contracting,” said MediBid founder and CEO Ralph Weber. “By removing the middleman from medical care, MediBid makes it possible for the uninsured, the underinsured, Canadians on a waiting list, people using a high deductible healthcare plan with an HRA or HSA and people seeking experimental procedures, elective surgery or a non-covered procedure to be able to afford the care they want and need.”
The online portal will allow the physician, known as a “bidder,” to respond to requests for care from the patient, or “seeker.”
Company officials said prices will not be regulated and the portal will allow physicians to tailor bids on a case-by-case basis.
“The medical middleman has driven up costs for both patients and physicians without regard for quality of care,” said Weber. “Medical bureaucracy interferes with the practice of medicine. This is bad for doctors and patients.”
This solution is long overdue - and one that reminds Americans of the difference between private innovation and government solutions.
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
And here, in a less-than-one-page article is more cost containment for the industry than all 4000+ pages of the combined jackass bills.
But, in spite of what the jackasses say, that’s not the purpose of either or any of the proposed jackass bills. The only time anything was put in any of their bills that would actually help us normal citizens who don’t get free health care like the legislators do was to draw attention away from the can of grease they’re using.
January 2nd, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Once again private enterprise embarrasses the government.
January 4th, 2010 at 9:32 am
And this government doesn’t even need help in embarrassing itself!
January 4th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Government tries to make things more complex to make us think that we actually “need” them to fix it.
BUT….the healthcare problem is really quite simple. Healthcare coverage costs a lot because medical care costs a lot. Medical care costs a lot because the government has sent the price for 14,193 procedures, which are lower than cost.
The SOLUTION to that is, to let doctors set their own rates.
We don’t need change, we need a solution.
And THAT wasn’t 2,000 pages
January 4th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
The entire basis for Israelite law was set in less than 200 pages. How can 2000+ pages to “fix” the health care system make any sense, considering that?
The answer is (or should be) obvious: the jackass bills (take your choice which one) are designed to stupify, make obtuse, and otherwise cloud whatever real issues health care in this country has. Period.
If the Congress wanted to simplify the health care system and make it equitable, they could start by eliminating government intrusions into how it is administered and how it is paid for, requiring only portability (possibly covered by the interstate commerce clause.)
January 5th, 2010 at 12:04 am
“Health care” is not about health care , its about dictating as much of our lives as they can, as quickly as they can.
May 18th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
O yea, I like Felipe Massa! He’s so cute