My MD and Me issues the $1,000,000,000,000.00 Challenge
In affiliation with Precura, the Nation's premier insurance alternative, My MD and Me is prescribing the cure for what ails both US health care and the US economy
My MD and Me and Precura have created an affiliate arrangement where patients and health care providers of all types can be linked together in order to reduce the financial burden of health care by cutting out the pork. Using the sophisticated, yet simple PrecuraCare database, health care providers (from surgeons to fitness trainers) can post services and pricing and link with patients directly, rather than through a third party.
Why is this important? Some estimate that 2.2 trillion dollars was spent in health care dollars in America in 2007. Many think that as much as half of those dollars were spent unnecessarily.
The Company's advocate the patient having total responsibility for personal care encouraging patients to know what things cost. My MD and Me spokesman said, "If the patient does not pay the doctor a barrier is placed between them and costs are inflated. Think about it like a grocery store. You get coupons, great service. You know who offers the best value by shopping around, word of mouth from friends and reputations in the community. This changes if the customer stops paying the bill. What is the incentive to know the cost if you do not pay the bill? What is the stores' incentive to give good service? How does the consumer know who offers the best value?" he continued, "Service naturally declines because the ?customer' is not the person getting the milk, but the person paying for it. The costs naturally increase through artificial inflation. The only way this stops is to putting the customer in charge of the dollars being spent."
With this arrangement My MD and Me is offering free access to www.MyMDandME.com members to PrecuraCare (Precura currently charges as much as $149.00 per year for access).
A spokesman for Precura said, "The cost of health care spending is hurting more than just the health of our citizens, it is robbing billions of dollars from the economy. We believe that this arrangement with My MD and ME that we can be the cure."
The Trillion Dollar Challenge hopes to inspire as many patients, healthcare providers, health care vendors, and companies to join the cause to save healthcare and the economy in one fell swoop. In the next 12 months their aim is to cut healthcare spending in half. It is an audacious goal, but one the Company's are staking revenue on by offering no-cost memberships.
About Precura - Precura believes the way to reduce the financial burden of health care is to remove the factors unnecessarily inflating costs. Precura is committed to saving consumers money while concurrently improving quality, efficiency, and convenience in health care. Find out more at http://www.precura.com/
About - My MD and Me is an affiliate of Precura and was begun to build a mutual admiration between doctors and patients in an educational forum. It advocates the linking of healthcare providers with patients that are willing to pay a fair price for healthcare directly to the providers saving themselves money and the provider. http://www.mymdandme.com/
