Obamacare’s doctor shortage and concierge medicine
The demand for health care under ObamaCare will increase dramatically. The supply of physicians won’t. Get ready for a two-tier system of medical care. Continue reading
U.S. health care warning signs
Doctors struggling to make ends meet; ObamaCare at 2 years old: bad news;Commercial insurers have trouble staying in business;Drug companies are less ambitious; Super-high health plan premiums. Continue reading
Primary Care Can Be Comprehensive and Convenient for $2 a Day
For example of how people can get primary health care without insurance, see John Goodman’s post: Primary Care Can Be Comprehensive and Convenient for $2 a Day. Goodman notes that “all this will go away, however, if Obama Care is fully implemented.”
Concierge medicine: doctors tire of dealing with politically-controlled insurance
Concierge medicine “potentially poses a big threat to Medicare and to the new world of medical care envisioned under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul. “
A Radically Different Approach to Health Insurance
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis writes: [B]efore the current era, the most common form of health insurance — other than Blue Cross plans — was indemnity insurance with a fee schedule. A typical benefit consisted of so many dollars a day for each day in the hospital. Since the benefit was […]
