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twig
Citizen
Username: Twig
Post Number: 82
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 - 10:06 pm: |     |
Did anyone else get a notice from your doctor that he/she is joining a medical group called MDVIP from Boca Raton, FL? My doctor notified us that he will be limiting his practice to 600 patients, each of whom must pay an upfront cost of $1500 per year as well as regular co-pays. The company claims that those 600 will get no waiting time for appointments, office-visits of as much as an hour, and other advantages. If you don't choose to pay the fee, you get turned over to other doctors in his group practice. As someone who only goes to a doctor 2 or 3 times a year (knock on wood!) for the flu or colds, that makes the per visit charge pretty steep. Just how fast are we moving to a 2-tier healthcare system where the wealthy get "first class" care and the rest of us get the scraps? |
1-2many
Citizen
Username: Wbg69
Post Number: 193
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 6, 2003 - 10:23 pm: | |
I think it's a great response to the butchery that the managed health care system is making of bona fide health care. insurance cogs aren't doctors, yet they are as able as doctors to prescribe, and proscribe, treatments.
bah to the overreaching managed health care system, good for doctors taking a more productive stand than striking, and great for patients who need more than their insurance will "authorize" and can afford $1500/yr to get it. |
lseltzer
Citizen
Username: Lseltzer
Post Number: 1655
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 7, 2003 - 6:30 am: | |
I guess he's not taking Medicare assignment anymore, since such policies would violate Medicare rules.
I'm glad I'm not a doctor. Managed care and malpractice have made a complete mess of it. |
Iaowks Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 348
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 7, 2003 - 1:03 pm: | |
I don't like the sounds of that deal, either, twig, but how much medical care should be determined by free enterprise and how much of it should be regulated? I don't think no-wait visits are an entitlement, so it makes sense to make it a service that you pay (dearly) for. The thing I object to is that this may make the waits for appointments even longer than they already are for us common folk. But whose responsibility is that to correct? I don't have the answer to that.
Tom Reingold
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