Michigan legislative action thread
More lawyers lawyering on behalf of lawyers. That’s usually what “smarter” means in modern parlance.
Let doctors and patients negotiate among themselves who will perform what procedures for what prices.
Can you get a retainer with a clinic, hospital or medical system?
Can businesses set up retainers for their employees?
I can remember when companies had their own doctors for yearly checkups of their employees.
We might just see the return of the house visit by doctors.
Absolutely correct. Insurance is to mitigate catastrophic loss arising from serious accidents and diseases, not to pay for every doctors visit for the sniffles and scrapes and then pay for cough medicine and antibiotics.
The practice of insurance has become so perverse that the former is no longer covered since coverage for big items has become unaffordable, and the true market price of the latter is no longer discoverable, making it, too, wildly more expensive than it should be.
obamneycare just made the situation even worse.
“. In a centrally planned economy, like Obamacare or a single payer system, patients wait on doctors. Often they wait weeks or months. Often they die waiting on basic treatment that could save their lives.”
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Grammar question.
“Patients wait on doctors” Wouldn’t that be “wait FOR doctors”?
It also mentions “Wait on basic treatment”—Same question.
Maybe it’s a regional thing.
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One big question they didn’t address was that while medical retainer agreements aren’t insurance, that because of Obamacare, insurance is *required*, even if you don’t need it.
So, does it mean that if you retain a doctor, you *also* still have to buy medical care insurance?