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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a doctor in primary care. If you want an MD pcp doctor in the future with good appointment times and someone who has time to listen etc this is what the future holds. For many it’s either this or leaving medicine all together because the current landscape is not sustainable.

In the future it will be either MD via concierge for the rich and a rotating group of NP/PA with less training for everyone else. [/quote]

nah, we dont want to pay and think $50 for a annual PCP visit is more than enough  SMH at how brainwashed the patients/consumers are these days.  [/quote]

$50 is more than enough.  It’s shocking how brainwashed Americans are.  People on South Korea or Japan go to the doctor every year for free, or when they need to pay it costs something like $5-10 per visit.  US healthcare blows.[/quote]

You don't understand the difference between how much the patient pays at point of service vs how much the provider receives. [/quote]

And you don’t understand how terrible the U.S. is.  The Japanese have a similar level of taxation as we do, yet somehow they manage to have pretty much universal access to affordable medicine.  In fact, the Japanese government mandates that everyone get a free comprehensive physical every year after a certain age.  Healthcare is affordable and accessible there that they got to the doctor like 9-12 times per year, on average.  Each time might only cost them $20 or less out of pocket.

Meanwhile, in the U.S. we shell out hundreds per month for insurance that many places no longer even take only to have to pay even more exorbitant fees at the offices.  And that’s only if you’re lucky enough to get access to a doctor.  Everything about US healthcare blows.  It is massively overpriced too. [/quote]

Because doctors (and drug/insurance execs) expect to be rich.

For all of their complaining, do you have one doctor friend:relative who is not well off? They live in nice houses, send kids to private school, go on fancy vacations.

Lately, some don’t even work five days a week.

If you can afford that lifestyle, while working part-time, you are over charging your patients.[/quote]

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