How primary care physicians should be paid

The United States health care system is made up of many components: preventive care, primary care, urgent care, emergency care, specialists, hospitalization, home health, hospice, and many others. My approach divides the system into two separate yet integrally linked parts (primary care and everything else called major medical). My focus is on the overhaul of how we deliver primary care across this nation.

Primary care is defined as delivering a uniform and consistent set of health care services to the entire population at a set price. Primary care only involves two groups, the users of the system (patients) and...