This is the working concept brief in full — mission, model, economics, acquisition strategy, regulatory red flags, and everything in between. Click into any section.
The core idea, on the Home page — what DPC proved, and why DHC applies it to hospitals.
Section 2Membership structure, the five locked principles, and community ownership.
Section 3Pricing scenarios, employer math, and 5-year staffing cost estimates.
Section 4Why distressed rural hospitals are the target, and where to start.
Section 5What actually pays for the model — surgery, imaging, and referral reduction.
Section 6Where lean staffing and AI actually fund each other.
Section 7The ER conundrum, the HUB, and the Medicare membership question.
Section 8How this actually gets paid for, and who's given gifts like it before.
Section 9Why this plan is being published instead of guarded.
Section 10Places already doing pieces of this today.
Section 11How a community actually gets convinced to pay a monthly fee to a hospital.
Section 12What has to happen next, roughly in order.