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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would pay $100 a year to be able to email a doctor and get an answer back within a day.  That would be very cool.  [/quote]

You should look into One Medical Group-- they just recently expanded to DC and this is one of their selling points (along with same day appts)-- I think the annual fee is $199 but they take most insurance.

http://www.onemedical.com/dc/doctors

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/health/01medical.html?pagewanted=all

I'm a way out there lefty that thinks we ought to have public (free) med schools and single payer health care, and I dropped two different internists who went concierge (the first wanted $2k a year and the second $1500 I think) and relied on minute clinic/urgent care centers for the last 5 or 6 years, but I don't really get the level of moral outrage about this.  It's pretty obvious that people with more money will get more health care (just like they get more food, bigger houses, etc.)- the only question is whether or not we will provide a minimum level of healthcare for everyone, and how much power/revenues the insurance cos. will have.  Part of the healthcare reform bill is a requirement that insurance companies spend at least 80% of their income on actually reimbursing doctors.  I think that's great, but it kind of boggles my mind that even after healthcare reform 20% of health insurance premiums just go to paperwork/profit for the insurance company.[/quote]

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