Bret BernhoftTag: Healthcare | Bret Bernhoft http://www.bretevan.com Web Analyst and Internet Broadcaster Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:01:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Just another WordPress site Bret Bernhoft no Bret Bernhoft bret@insyghtconsulting.com bret@insyghtconsulting.com (Bret Bernhoft) Reuse and Remix Web Analyst and Internet Broadcaster Bret BernhoftTag: Healthcare | Bret Bernhoft http://www.bretevan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Favicon.png http://www.bretevan.com Portland Oregon Weekly Portland Patient Physician Coop http://www.bretevan.com/portland-patient-physician-coop/ http://www.bretevan.com/portland-patient-physician-coop/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:20:24 +0000 Bret Bernhoft http://www.bretevan.com/?p=2231 The Portland Patient Physician Coop (PPC) is a group of patients and healthcare providers looking to collectivize the healthcare needs of Portland. According to their website the, “Patient Physician Cooperatives (PPC), established in 2005, is a non-profit organization of patients, physicians and member representatives. PPC is not an insurance product or discount program; it is a group of physicians who have joined together to give their patients access to affordable, basic health care through mutual support.” 

To many, this healthcare model comes out of necessity. With healthcare costs continuing to increase and access becoming scarcer, some in the local have taken it upon themselves to invest energy and resources into an alternative; the coop model. Simply put, the coop model, when applied to healthcare, is a group of people coming together as a community to support each other by removing the insurance middleman. This reduces costs, according to Tony McCormick, “…by up to 80%.”

Episode Notes: Attached to this post is an interview I conducted with Tony McCormick in early July, 2011. Take a listen into what may turn out to be one of Portland’s strongest cooperative healthcare movements.

]]> http://www.bretevan.com/portland-patient-physician-coop/feed/ 0 Coop Model,Healthcare,Portland Healthcare,Portland Patient Physician Coop,Tony McCormick The Portland Patient Physician Coop (PPC) is a group of patients and healthcare providers looking to collectivize the healthcare needs of Portland. According to their website the, "Patient Physician Cooperatives (PPC), established in 2005, The Portland Patient Physician Coop (PPC) is a group of patients and healthcare providers looking to collectivize the healthcare needs of Portland. According to their website the, "Patient Physician Cooperatives (PPC), established in 2005, is a non-profit organization of patients, physicians and member representatives. PPC is not an insurance product or discount program; it is a group of physicians who have joined together to give their patients access to affordable, basic health care through mutual support."  To many, this healthcare model comes out of necessity. With healthcare costs continuing to increase and access becoming scarcer, some in the local have taken it upon themselves to invest energy and resources into an alternative; the coop model. Simply put, the coop model, when applied to healthcare, is a group of people coming together as a community to support each other by removing the insurance middleman. This reduces costs, according to Tony McCormick, "...by up to 80%." Episode Notes: Attached to this post is an interview I conducted with Tony McCormick in early July, 2011. Take a listen into what may turn out to be one of Portland's strongest cooperative healthcare movements. Bret Bernhoft no