Did you know that if doctors submit their RX’s thru a ‘special’ computer system hooked up directly with EVERY pharmacy, they get a little extra $$ from Medicaid? In order to do this, ALL of your records, test reports, letters from other docs etc. are in a computer complete with a monitor in each examining room. They even have a field that they can post your picture in along with your demo info.They just type in the RX and shoot it off just like an email.
My former dr went MD-VIP a few years ago; you have to pay a quarterly fee to be his patient. It was about $3000 a year. They still file with your insurance, but you are guaranteed to be seen the same day and get at least an hour of his time. Healthcare for the rich. Like belonging to a country club.
So, us poor people, who can just about afford the copays, can’t pay the price of admission to get real, honest to goodness ‘CARE’. Only our symptoms will be treated, because to find out the cause will cost too much money and take up too much time.
CVS is doing this now. But me? I’ll do it the old fashion way for as long as I can.