My dad was an OB-GYN. He retired early in the ‘80s when the government started to interfere with his practice. I think that whirring sound I hear now is him spinning in his grave.
Great. Now we can go shopping and visit the doctor at the same time.
Wow, liberals get their hands on something and it immediately turns to cr@p? Who coulda seen this coming?
My doctor of 20 years switched to ‘Concierge Medicine’ at the beginning of 2013
he wanted to get back to the reasons he became a doctor, which was difficult with the way healthcare is going.
I’d be willing to pay more for doctor visits to home. Now that would be service. How much? Sign me up and bring me a half gallon of milk and a loaf of bread, okay?
This is no surprise to this retired physician. But it seems to be a bit of a surprise to the R.N. who wrote the article. Obamacare will drive primary care physicians to concierge practice, but this article fails to point this out.
The Democrats will find ways to punish these doctors. The mechanisms they can employ are numerous.
The libtard assclowns always seem to be surprised that people change their behavior when the rules are changed ... idiots!
actually, this sounds like a bargain, I am going to look at signing up
Soon enough we’ll see the IRS change their regulations such that “concierge service” will result in some sort of reduced fees and/or higher taxes. Also, “concierge” and “service” will be cause for more scrutiny of tax returns.
Pointing out a symptom, but never seeking (let alone finding) the problem.
0bama and his minions are achieving their goal with the American healthcare system. It has always been about control, and that comes with single-payer. 0bamacare is only the stepping stone to the fully socialized model envisioned by the commie-in-chief.
Bill Johnston-Walsh, AARP Pennsylvania state operations manager, says, “We want to make sure everyone has access to quality care that they can afford.”
Love it... AARP guy with hyphenated name was probably out there supporting Obamacare and didn’t see this coming?
If this becomes rampant, we will see more regulations regarding concierge care. If that doesn’t quell the tide, we will probably see regulations that prohibit concierge care physicians from having privileges at hospitals that receive any kind of Federal moneys.
Obamacare will not allow concierge care to impose on this grand[iose] program.
Doctors should be grateful simply for the opportunity to serve the feral government.
“The main problem with the retainer model is that it limits the number of patients that a particular primary care clinician cares for,”
Wouldn’t that be a problem only if you were designing a socialistic medical system that guaranteed everyone the same low level of inadequate doctor care?
Colorado Congressperson Jared Polis (D) has been hawking Offshore Medical/Surgical Care Business since Obamacare had a breath of life. Good investment opportunity, you betcha.
Momma was start-up guru for an on-line greeting card company and Jared her genius son got to play executive, made Jared rich child with many tools at his disposal.
The 500 pound gorilla in the room are doctors who are now refusing Medicare, Medicaid, and even routine health care insurance. In doing so, they save so much money by not having to hire a huge staff to do paperwork, that they can offer the same procedures for 50% less cost to their patients.
And make more money for themselves as well. However, they still must comply with lots of the intrusive government b.s. called HIPAA.
http://concierge-physicians.com/strategic-planning-2/ops/tech/9-hipaa-compliance-chklist.html
HIPAA is an insidious thing, as it promises patient privacy, while making their information available to multiple levels of government at whim, in a format easier for government to access. It is the opposite of privacy.
This is why HSAs are such a good idea. Too bad they will be outlawed.
My daughter-in-law finally left hospital Trauma work so she could again work one on one with patients, said the same thing. She feels like she’s now doing what she was trained to do....and not in a hospital setting.
She’s working at a Med-Express and loves it...quality time with patients and at a pace where that is possible.
She often spoke of foreign nurses being hired who had no idea what to do, so they were constantly having to do their work as well.
Can someone on Medicare or Medicaid pay a doctor with cash to continue seeing a doctor dropping those programs due to poor reimbursement?
Can you switch to concierge care with cash despite being in a federal program?