Bring Healthcare Costs Under Control

The Problem

In 1973, the Health Maintenance Organization Act fundamentally changed American healthcare by promoting managed care organizations. [1]  What was intended to reduce costs instead created a vast layer of non-clinical administrators and insurance intermediaries who now stand between patients and their physicians.

Today, for every dollar spent on healthcare, a staggering portion goes not to care, but to administrative overhead [2] — billing specialists, utilization reviewers, prior authorization staff, and insurance company bureaucracies that second-guess clinical decisions made by licensed professionals.

The result: longer waits, higher costs, worse outcomes, and a system where a clerk with a checklist can override a physician with a decade of training. [3]

What We Propose

Repeal the HMO Act of 1973 and dismantle the structural incentives that inserted non-clinical personnel into patient care decisions.

Return medical decision-making authority to licensed physicians.  When your doctor says you need a treatment, that should be the end of the conversation — not the beginning of an appeals process.

Eliminate the administrative gatekeeping that drives up costs while adding zero clinical value.  Patients deserve a healthcare system that spends its resources on healing, not on paperwork.

How We’ll Know It’s Working