These Doctors Got Fed Up With Insurance...

[Chris]

One of the rare good consequence of Obamacare.

These Doctors Got Fed Up With Insurance. Now They Treat Their Patients Like Valued Customers: New at Reason (http://reason.com/blog/2017/10/16/these-doctors-got-fed-up-with-insurance)


The “direct primary care” movement is attracting physicians sick of red tape. And it’s transforming the doctor-patient relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Vqjo2S1us

One of the most profound changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act is that it drove thousands of independent doctors to throw in the towel and join large hospital networks. This is particularly true of primary care doctors. As the rules involving medical records, billing codes, and prior authorizations have gotten more complex, physicians find they can't survive without joining large health care networks. And they're becoming increasingly demoralized.

Today there's a small but growing movement of doctors who are opting out of the traditional health care system by no longer accepting insurance. This new approach is is called "direct primary care," but it's essentially a throwback to an era before insurance companies were responsible for covering routine services like ear infections or strep cultures.

[Cthulhu]

In Idaho falls there is a cash only doctor - he is busy as hell

Sent from my evil cell phone.

[Chris]

This is actually the way healthcare worked before the government, the insurance companies and the AMA screwed it up.

[Don]

This is actually the way healthcare worked before the government, the insurance companies and the AMA screwed it up.

Exactly!

[Chris]

The other thing people used to do was form private groups to pool money towards healthcare. Something that Trump recently proposed allowing people to do.

[midcan5]

In Idaho falls there is a cash only doctor - he is busy as hell

All the cash only people cheat like hell when it comes to taxes, a few get caught. Is he the honest person Diogenes was looking for?

Actually the OP may be a good thing a way to handle paper work, regulations and the law. Nothing wrong with efficiency.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/health-law-repeal-has-little-support-poll-finds.html


"...Is one’s individual freedom not increased by measures such as unemployment compensation, guaranteed health insurance, public pensions, higher wages, strong unions, state-funded or provided childcare—the whole panoply of social democracy that most libertarians see as not only irrelevant to but an infringement upon individual freedom?" Corey Robin http://coreyrobin.com/2012/03/07/when-libertarians-go-to-work/



The other thing people used to do was form private groups to pool money towards healthcare. Something that Trump recently proposed allowing people to do.

I think they call that insurance? Ah but something must be amiss.

[Kacper]

All the cash only people cheat like hell when it comes to taxes, a few get caught. Is he the honest person Diogenes was looking for?

Actually the OP may be a good thing a way to handle paper work, regulations and the law. Nothing wrong with efficiency.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/health-law-repeal-has-little-support-poll-finds.html


"...Is one’s individual freedom not increased by measures such as unemployment compensation, guaranteed health insurance, public pensions, higher wages, strong unions, state-funded or provided childcare—the whole panoply of social democracy that most libertarians see as not only irrelevant to but an infringement upon individual freedom?" Corey Robin http://coreyrobin.com/2012/03/07/when-libertarians-go-to-work/




I think they call that insurance? Ah but something must be amiss.

Cash only I think means you pay the whole bill, not necessarily literally greenbacks (I assume so since everybody has debit cards these days)

[Chris]

All the cash only people cheat like hell when it comes to taxes, a few get caught. Is he the honest person Diogenes was looking for?

Actually the OP may be a good thing a way to handle paper work, regulations and the law. Nothing wrong with efficiency.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/health-law-repeal-has-little-support-poll-finds.html


"...Is one’s individual freedom not increased by measures such as unemployment compensation, guaranteed health insurance, public pensions, higher wages, strong unions, state-funded or provided childcare—the whole panoply of social democracy that most libertarians see as not only irrelevant to but an infringement upon individual freedom?" Corey Robin http://coreyrobin.com/2012/03/07/when-libertarians-go-to-work/




I think they call that insurance? Ah but something must be amiss.

Perhaps similar to insurance but not the same. Unions used this model.

[Cthulhu]

All the cash only people cheat like hell when it comes to taxes, a few get caught. Is he the honest person Diogenes was looking for?

Actually the OP may be a good thing a way to handle paper work, regulations and the law. Nothing wrong with efficiency.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/health/health-law-repeal-has-little-support-poll-finds.html


"...Is one’s individual freedom not increased by measures such as unemployment compensation, guaranteed health insurance, public pensions, higher wages, strong unions, state-funded or provided childcare—the whole panoply of social democracy that most libertarians see as not only irrelevant to but an infringement upon individual freedom?" Corey Robin http://coreyrobin.com/2012/03/07/when-libertarians-go-to-work/




I think they call that insurance? Ah but something must be amiss.Cheating the government out of stolen funds is a noble pursuit.

Sent from my evil cell phone.