[nikkwong]

How could this possibly work out for her financially? To make 120k a year, she would have to be doing this with.. 200 patients; and I think the average GP makes a bit more than that in the US. That doesn't like a good bargain on her end.

[classichasclass]

200 patients is an extremely small panel size for the typical primary care provider in the United States. Many have several thousand.

[aiforecastthway]

I do not think I have ever spent more than an hour per visit actually in the room with my GP. I have an annual checkup. For a while there my GP was world class and also a blood relative.

200 patients at one hour per is a bit more than a month of 9-5s.

If I visited my GP once per 1.5 months I’d be paying a fuckload more than $50/mo in copayments alone, in addition to my incredible premiums.

Healthcare becomes pretty affordable when you’re not paying for actuaries and other scammers.

[maxerickson]

Not paying someone to chase insurance saves something anyway.

I'm at about 1 hour per year with my GP (I guess they can be spending additional time on notes or whatever, but I don't think it's much).

[nikkwong]

I guess I see this as somewhat different. These people are proactively choosing to maintain a relationship with a physician for an elective $50/month. I think the type of patient who wants a type of this relationship is the type who is going to solicit more than a single appointment per year; otherwise, why not just use what the current system gives us?

I could see something like this being useful for me; I'm constantly nagging my physician for different drugs I am triaging for a condition I'm dealing with. But, in that case, I wouldn't be the ideal patient for the physician. I wish this kind of thing could work, but I'm not sure how I see it working in practice, unless you move up market and charge more.