My doctor also went with “a concierge care” goup and it was going to cost me $1,650 a year just to go in the door to see him. I already pay $250 a month for a supplement to Medicare (and Medicare cost is taken out of my SS check and it goes up every year) and would have to pay this $1,650, too.
So, I had to get another doctor, even though I had this one for over 16 years - he dumped me and the rest of his patients in one day and none of us had a doctor as of that day unless we joined the concierge group.
Healthcare now is a quagmire at every age. You can't count on your doctor being there anymore.
I'm sorry to hear that. That is very tragic. What a lousy mess the new health care law is.
We will soon be like Britain: you get the NHS, or if you have enough money, your own private doctor.
Our family doc quit to take a job with a veterans group-—but I’m sure he just wanted out of the regulation that’s coming.
So you dumped your doctor and the new doctor dumped you and you're complaining about loyalty?
Not really trying to put you down; this is a cultural thing...to believe we are entitled to something from someone else that we don't ourselves provide for another person...
Particularly with doctors, it's like they're our parents and when economic reality hits them they're supposed to behave sacrificially.
Love the name Marcella. It's Raggedy Ann's little girl...