“people had to pay for their elective office visits, check-ups and drugs”
For 80%+ of covered adults, each office visit will have a substantial cost both in a co-pay and a loss of rebate money.
Many young men won’t retain the office visit coverage.
I don’t think it will only be young men who don’t buy that-I realize not everyone wants to live a natural lifestyle-without processed food or any drugs, doc visits only for real illness or injury, etc-but there are a lot of people like me out here who do just that-we pay concierge for minor emergencies, elective stuff, etc, too. I’d like to see insurance that would pay for some natural remedies to be tried before drugs for those of us who chose that-it is probably safer and certainly less costly.
The only 2 doc-in-the-box places in this county that have stayed in business have both a D.O. who is into naturopathic cures and an acupuncturist on staff-both places are owned by the same Chinese doc. The only surviving drugs-all-the-time clinic is being closed and investigated for overprescribing psychotropics and opiates to doctor shoppers and others-talk about using the insurers for an ATM...