Posted on 08/31/2009 12:03:39 PM PDT by fiscon1
Chad Harris is an entrepeneur. As such, health insurance was always expensive for him because he never had group insurance through an employer. (after all he's his own employer) It could cost well over a $1000 monthly for his family. One day he was on a business trip when his wife was discussing the difficulties of getting health insurance with her doctor Dr. Sam Sannoufi, MD. Her doctor came up with an idea. The doctor would provide a menu of basic medical care for her and her family for $599 for the whole year and the whole family. It would allow for up to 12 hospital visits and several basic tests and procedures. She was stunned and so she wrote out a check before even speaking with Chad.
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There has been talk for years of doing something about health care in the US, but nobody has taken the initiative to do anything. I have heard of this form of “no insurance” recently. Many doctors are starting to do this, calling it a “club.” Maybe this exercise in Nobamacare is bringing out the entrepreneurial spirit that is so good in the US.
As shown by the article, one may not even need a “club” to get similar physician coverage. Talk to your doctor. What would it hurt? How much can be saved by the physician/provider when middleman costs are removed? And why shouldn’t a portion of that savings be passed on to the patient?
Yep take it off the gridn no lawyers,or insurance companies get involved.
We need to find one or many, cheap, viable and VERY effective alternatives.
Stuff like this would sell like wild fire. The GOP MUST get on the TORP reform bandwagon and also the insurance overhall, which will allow the consumer to buy the insurance they need, where, from whom and when they need it.
Oh and with NO gov involvement!!!
Not quite sure I get this. So if I pay my Dr. $6K all is well and good as far as his services go. If I end up in the hospital I don’t think they’d give a rat’s ass about my arrangement with my Dr. I’m pretty sure they would want their $10K a day to stay there.
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