Posted on 06/15/2013 6:25:26 PM PDT by grundle
We need to have street corner doctors and dentists like they have in India and other places.
Doesn’t Obama-care outlaw high deductible insurance next year?
Or does it trigger the fines?
Eventually state boards will yank their license to practice.
How ironic! Obamacare was touted as the solution to lower costs and get everyone insured; now it’s back to fee for service just like in the 50’s before anyone got insurance at work.
Doc in the Box (Urgent Care) is the way to go.
“Kaiser started this, right? “
No Roosevelt and the unions. They saw it as a way to make unionizing easier. Then it spread and became the defacto way folks get health insurance.
RE: “I wish there were a national registry of some sort for these guys so we could find them more easily. Optometrists and dentists, too.”
Just search ‘concierge doctors’ in whatever your area is and a list should come up. There are numerous organizations they belong to. One of them is MidVIP. I’ve never known a dentist or optometrist to discount for cash but many specialists do and certainly GP/internists.
I’ve gotten good discounts from Orthopedists, Internists and Dermatologists; also Opthalmologists. If you don’t ask, you’ll never know. Most docs I’ve discussed this with (and their staffs) are pleased to accept your cash (or credit cards). No co-pays, no billbacks, no hassles. It’s so EASY.
I do carry a (lousy and overpriced, partly due to upcoming BO ‘care’) — hospitalization policy because those are the costs that really wipe you out. But even hospitals discount for cash and take payments; often very little per month.
My doctor told me that he treats his long-time Medicaid patients for free in his office because it costs his practice less to provide care for free than deal with the bureaucratic requirements. He is no longer taking new Medicaid patients.
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I agree. If this starts to become a trend, it will not be allowed. Too much money lost by the “system”. All the state boards have to do is make an administrative rule and ...”viola”.
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