The cost-lowering potential of direct-payment practices is heartening because the current third-party payment system has failed to stem our burgeoning health cost crisis.

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Unfortunately, physics, economics and entrepreneurship take a backseat to our legalistic, third-party payment system.

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Unfortunately, physics, economics and entrepreneurship take a back seat to our legalistic, third-party payment system.

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