The artist's representation of concierge medicine? How much do you suppose you have to pay the doctor a month to have him come to your estate and stroll the grounds with you as you discuss cholesterol?
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Utopia: There's a glossy throw-away magazine that comes along every couple of months devoted to physician "business and lifestyle." The latest issue interviewed a consigliere concierge physician. They only interviewed one doctor, a pediatrician, who is definitely not the doctor in this photo:
The artist's representation of concierge medicine? How much do you suppose you have to pay the doctor a month to have him come to your estate and stroll the grounds with you as you discuss cholesterol?
The artist's representation of concierge medicine? How much do you suppose you have to pay the doctor a month to have him come to your estate and stroll the grounds with you as you discuss cholesterol?
To be honest, we don't have universal health care in the US, so what we do have, regardless of if anyone admits it or not, is still sliding healthcare. I don't fault doctors for offering speciality services. Everyone deserves the right to make money. The rich can purchase as many serves as they like, the middle class has basic care through health insurance (smaller cost than private), and medicare is the lowest tier where patients pay nothing at all. You want everyone to recieve the same quality care, look at states that have universal coverage. Yeah, we all wish we were rich, but we aren't. And we have to all live with that.
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ReplyDeleteThank you Sydney.
ReplyDeleteThey don't show the doc cutting the grass and trimming the shrubbery later.
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