A large number decamped from overworked practices in Seattle and set up concierge services. Doctor has smaller staff dealing with paper, more technicians, more time to spend with patients, better office space, better take home pay, better health results. My medic left the poverty inducing group he ran and now charges me a set annual fee. I pop in for "free" as much as I need. I can call and have an appointment the next day instead of two months out, and most tests are done in house at no cost to me. They upgraded their radiology suite, added another saw bones, and have 24/7 coverage. No obummer care, no medifraud, a swift bed at hospital instead of having to camp out in emergency department, and I do not have to visit some grocery store urgent care shoppe.
clay On Nov 3, 2015, at 7:08 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes wrote: > What a surprise! Hursty said I was crazy when I speculated that doctors > (especially older ones) would vote with their feet. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of >> Rich Thomas via Mercedes >> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:51 PM >> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Cc: Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] single payer health insurance >> >> So this morning my unkie posts on FB that he thinks he has pneumonia or >> something, calls his doc to come get checked out. His long-time doc left > the >> place early in the year, some new doc takes the place. Turns out the new > doc >> took off too, so now he is docless. (He did not check to see why he did > not >> get notified or turfed off or what, just >> dropped.) The phone droid tells him to go to the ER or find a new doc. >> No docs in town taking new patients (probably no patients with Medicare or >> whatever he has). So he is all bent about that. >> >> I point out that "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." >> He got really upset about that, so I expanded on the comment a bit to tell >> him that 1) the practice should not have just ejected him with no notice, > 2) >> unless they did give notice they are still responsible for him and his > care with >> whatever doc is still around, 3) probably best to go to the ER or a > doc-in-a- >> box to deal with the acute issue while sorting out with the original > provider. >> Also that the med bidness is now pretty much like the DMV, esp with people >> like him on Medicare or Obamacare or whatever that doesn't pay much, >> despite the desires of the docs actually providing care to provide care. >> >> He was a big Obama/Obamacare supporter, now he is finding his dreams >> were somewhat misplaced as reality bites his butt (or lungs, in this > case). He >> lives in a smallish town, I'm sure all the docs there are getting killed > by low >> reimbursements, and just don't want to deal with the low-end customers. >> >> --R >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
