By removing the market from the equation: “It is quite clear that we’re in this situation because we’ve created it by destroying the laws of economics as relates to the primary care specialty, creating an absence of incentives to enter the profession.”
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As the shortage of PCP’s becomes very real and people find themselves having to wait TOO long to see their doctor, the new breed of concierge practices will spring up with greater vigor than ever to fill the demand. From what I read on these blogs, there are mixed messages of whether or not this is already happening. The one thing that could defeat this partial solution is if government stepped in with restrictions banning or greatly restricting the rights of concierge practices.
IVF-MD: This is already happening…but it’s not government stepping in with restrictions – it’s the insurance companies. Read more here.
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Thanks, Tannus. That was an interesting article. Well I wish the best to the concierge practices. I see that the insurance companies influence is only limited to their excluding the doctors out of their networks. Good riddance. It just challenges the doctors to get so good and so desired that that they won’t have any wish to be part of any insurance networks. Let the patients have insurance to cover hospitalization and catastrophic illness and let the concierge doctors practice medicine as they see fit.
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