| >The obvious, obvious thing is to simply pay the doctor a fix priced each month wether they diagnose you with something or not. Easy fix... "Just be wealthy!" lol... :| I've paid for the absolute best insurance I could find this year and gone to doctors my entire life that simply don't care. I've had everything from colonoscopies to MRIs done and I haven't spent more than one day in my entire life in a hospital overnight in over 40 years. Many would say I'm pretty healthy, but who knows? It usually seems like doctors peddle as much fear as web MD now in order to drive me through the service bay of fees every time I have an ache or troublesome pain. If it's any consolation though, my dentist, my auto maintenance shop, my lawyer, and even my local supermarket want a constant revenue stream out of me because they have a pipeline of service that they know they can get a customer hooked on if they coordinate their efforts and make their pricing variable based on being properly opportunistic. A lot of the tactics the health care industry regularly uses to sell services (and drugs of course too) are from the nefarious book of street drug dealers... In a bad economy, the scams and opportunism are ripe. Getting a second opinion is often VERY EXPENSIVE as well. Be careful my friends, sometimes it's better to face your fears of "WebMD prescribed" death head-on rather than to bankrupt yourself, because if you don't die, living broke or in extreme debt can be a "silent killer" and harmful mentally and physically to you too. Maybe marry a doctor... That might cut extreme health care costs... By about 5% if you're lucky... :P |
Or have all doctors employed by the state on good fixed pay