Dr. Madrigal-Dersch will be speaking during TTUHSC SOM P3 week about her cash based practice and challenges of practicing medicine. All are welcome to attend. Please RSVP to ensure enough food for all.

Dr. Madrigal-Dersch has a private Med-Peds practice in Texas. She is also a BRI board member. Her story about how she designed her practice and life to support maximum patient care, personal satisfaction and joy is truly inspiring. We hope you'll join us.

Video: Dr. Jules Madrigal-Dersch, why BRI supports a free market approach to medicine, at BRI leadership conference, 2016 American Enterprise Institute.

Dr. Beth Haynes (r), BRI executive director

Dr. Beth Haynes, BRI executive director will giving a lecture to George Washington University students and faculty on health insurance.

What is health insurance?

What is not?

How is understanding distinctions in health insurance critical to controlling healthcare costs?

The Benjamin Rush Institute hosted a lunch talk for 42 students with Dr. Mark Niedfeldt. An alumnus and previous MCW faculty member, Dr. Niedfeldt now owns a solo direct medical care (often called Direct Primary Care) clinic which offers patients unprecedented access to the physician and a higher level of personal attention. We heard him speak about his practice and how he offers high quality doctor-patient relationships in a cost-effective way.

Jordan Halevy, MS1 and BRI-Sackler chapter Founder and President will deliver an overview of the history of healthcare in the US, from the founding of the AMA and mutual societies all the way up to the ACA and beyond. The presentation will highlight the numerous government interventions into the healthcare market and how those distortions still affect us to this day.

All are invited to attend a lecture by Robert Nelson, MD, cofounder and spokesman for the Free Market Medical Association-Georgia Chapter. Dr. Nelson is also a DPC physician in the Atlanta area. Lunch will be provided.

This lunchtime presentation is part of a study being conducted by Will Craghead on DPC's ability to influence medical students to enter the primary care specialty.Will Craghead is a PA student and BRI chapter member.

All are invited to attend this lunch lecture on healthcare policy with Mr. John Torinus. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP.

John Torinus, author of The Grassroots Health Care Revolution and former CEO of of Serigraph, believes that the only way to improve health care and lower health costs are at the local level. In this talk, he will address how companies need to return to private health care and the effect that it will have on health care quality and cost.