Preserving the Patient-Doctor Relationship

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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.

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

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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.

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Events

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

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

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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: “Why Progressives’ Single-Payer Health Care Dream Would Bankrupt California”

Sacramento already struggles to run Medi-Cal. How will it manage a $500 billion takeover of the entire health system, especially given the state's poor financial standing and rolling debt?

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Sally Pipes: “Stop Subsidizing Insurers, Start Empowering Patients”

Subsidizing demand does not make health insurance cost less. Rather, when providers must compete for patients’ business, the quality of the care gets better and prices go down.

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Sally Pipes: “Republicans Already Have a Plan for Making Health Care Affordable in 2026”

The most pressing problem facing American patients is affordability. The good news is that Congress is weighing several reforms that could finally combat many of the contributing factors to sky-high health care costs.

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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