I have been reading more and more about these concierge Doctors...This is part of an article on MSN today....I have a BIG problem with this practice...
If Doctors want to charge these fees maybe they should be allowed to do this but not to be able to charge these fees and collect the insurance payments to boot...
This is just WRONG on so many levels!
5,000 concierge doctors — and growingAs many as 5,000 doctors nationwide have opted for full or partial concierge practices. Surveys suggest that number could quadruple within the next few years.
The result, critics say, is a segregated system that offers extra access for extra cash, even as it escalates a looming health care crisis for everyone else. And there’s nothing in the current health reform bills being considered in Congress to stop it.
“These practices exacerbate a fundamental problem in our health care system, which is this health care chasm between the haves and the have-nots,” said, Laura Weil, director of the health advocacy program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., and an analyst of concierge care.
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Helen, I am stupid. What is concierge?
I can't think of any doctor I would be willing to pay an annual fee just to be put on his accepted list. There are other fish in the sea.
Now if it escalates to where it is the only way to see a doctor, then I am ticked. We do so need reform.
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