Show: 013 Top Priority Podcast | Healthcare Priority Initiative
Date Recorded: December 17, 2019
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy
Guests: Charlie Katebi, Health Policy Analyst, Americans for Prosperity
Elliott Fox, Director of Healthcare Initiatives, Stand Together
Show Notes & Timestamps
- What is our Stand Together Community doing in the Healthcare space? min [3:45]
- What external barriers keep people from accessing quality, affordable Health Care? min [7:20]
What is Certificate of Need? How is it a barrier to accessing quality, affordable Health Care? min [7:35]**
What is Scope of Practice and how are Scope of Practice revisions removing barriers? min [14:07]**
What are the barriers to Telemedicine that need to be removed? min [21:40]**
- What internal barriers keep people from accessing affordable Health Care? min [24:44]
- How our Community views Health Care through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [36:45]
The violation of Equal Rights is forcing practitioners to beg for permission from the government to care for patients who want the service.
- How our Community views Healthcare through the lens of the second mutually-reinforcing principle—Mutual Benefit. min [38:48]
We value win-win solutions for patients and doctors.
- How our Community views Healthcare through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Openness. min [41:22]
- How our Community views Healthcare through the lens of the fourth mutually-reinforcing principle—Self-Actualization. min [42:50]
- How to think about Healthcare solutions through the lens of “What if government didn’t do that?” min [44:17]
*Additional Resource*
- Pessimists Archive Podcast hosted by Jason Feifer
- EconTalk Podcast hosted by Russ Roberts with Dr. Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care
- Dr. Keith Smith’s blog at Surgery Center of Oklahoma
- The Free Market Medical Association
- From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 by David Beito