Comments on: Retainer medicine and the public good http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/retainer-medicine-and-public-good.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/retainer-medicine-and-public-good.html/comment-page-1#comment-82659 Anonymous Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/retainer-medicine-and-the-public-good.html#comment-82659 I looked for a retainer doc in my community--there is none. <br/><br/>I don't really care if he is retainer, cash FFS, or some other model--I would just like to find someone for my primary care who I pay directly, pay him enough that he isn't pushing me through like a cow at the sale barn, and who sends out NO forms or other information on me to anyone else without my consent.<br/><br/>Somebody like my family GP of 30 years ago would suit me fine: Cheap office, no billing staff, cash on the barrel head fees, and blunt straight shooting. I'll even put up with the grime in the corner and the dirty smudged lab coat if I have too. I looked for a retainer doc in my community–there is none.

I don’t really care if he is retainer, cash FFS, or some other model–I would just like to find someone for my primary care who I pay directly, pay him enough that he isn’t pushing me through like a cow at the sale barn, and who sends out NO forms or other information on me to anyone else without my consent.

Somebody like my family GP of 30 years ago would suit me fine: Cheap office, no billing staff, cash on the barrel head fees, and blunt straight shooting. I’ll even put up with the grime in the corner and the dirty smudged lab coat if I have too.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/01/retainer-medicine-and-public-good.html/comment-page-1#comment-82529 Anonymous Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:40:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/01/retainer-medicine-and-the-public-good.html#comment-82529 Kudos to Kevin and the rest of you embracing this concept for finally taking some concrete steps to improve the situation and to (hopefully) steer us off the single payer track.<br/><br/>CJD Kudos to Kevin and the rest of you embracing this concept for finally taking some concrete steps to improve the situation and to (hopefully) steer us off the single payer track.

CJD

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