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Preserving the Patient-Doctor Relationship

We Are BRI

BRI unites medical students, students in affiliated healthcare specialties, faculty, doctors, healthcare professionals, and others who believe that free enterprise and a direct patient-doctor relationship are the best means for ensuring optimal patient outcomes at affordable prices.

Become a Member

BRI students enjoy scholarship opportunities to attend educational conferences and network with free enterprise healthcare advocates.

Media

From Direct Primary Care to healthcare economics and more, read the latest from BRI medical students, students in affiliated healthcare specialties, practicing physicians, healthcare professionals, and other experts. More media, podcasts, and materials available.

Events

BRI chapters host lively lectures, educational debates, discussion panels, movie screenings, and much more. Want to host or attend an event?

Connect With Leaders And Innovators

Through leadership conferences, chapter events, scholarships to national health care conferences and consistent written content, BRI strives to cultivate the careers of medical students.

Pathways2Practice

A platform for medical students, residents, nursing and pre-med students, practicing physicians, and other healthcare professionals to share and publish articles, op-eds, and research that is relevant to the patient-doctor relationship.

Sally Pipes: “‘Soak the Rich’ Won’t Rescue Calif. Healthcare”

There's a reason Medi-Cal’s finances are in disarray, and it's not because the rich aren’t paying their fair share.

Sally Pipes: “Competition, Not Price Controls, Just Slashed GLP-1 Prices”

A competitive drug market strongly encourages companies to best their rivals by developing the next generation of life-saving therapies. This leads to lower prices without the harmful effects of government coercion.

Sally Pipes: “Trump Has a Subsidy Alternative, We Should Take it Seriously”

If the government is going to spend enormous sums subsidizing health insurance, much better to give those funds to individuals and let them use the money to buy coverage of their choosing — or even pay for care directly.

Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of five physicians who signed the Declaration of Independence.

“Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.”

– Benjamin Rush, MD