Thanks for the information EDINVA, startling actually...
I read your link, then had a look at this one too:
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/01/02/bisb0102.htm
This is all going to get very messy and very expensive really fast... By 2016 we’ll all be buried in this nonsense; or without coverage and being fined and pursued by the IRS...
I don’t blame the docs one bit. O’care is trying to screw them and they’re trying to stay alive
Our docs’ practice is one of those hybrids, where they take insurance and have a ‘boutique’ fee I think in our case it’s $40/month per patient. Then you can email them, access your own medical records on a secure server 24/7, etc. So the $1500 would be the whole family. In some more upscale practices, the fee is $1500/patient.
I’m so old, I remember when our family’s country doctor made house calls 24/7 for $5 (maybe it was $10)! OV’s were $3 or $5. Long ago and oh, so far away