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Dude, you need direct primary care. When you pay the bills and no one else is involved, the doctor works for YOU. It's a profound difference, and one that it
by Dove 4y ago
Dude, you need direct primary care. When you pay the bills and no one else is involved, the doctor works for YOU. It's a profound difference, and one that it sounds like you need more than most.
https://www.dpcare.org/ https://www.dpcare.org/ is a good place to start, but I guarantee there's direct primary in your city - just google for it.
- octokatt 4y agoThis sounds good, but I have health insurance to cover for catastrophic health failure, which is very probable for me. I'd need to pay for both direct primary care and health insurance, and primary care payments wouldn't count towards my deductible. This is a situation without fast solutions.
- Dove 4y agoI have, many times in my life, maintained direct primary care and insurance at the same time. The difference in the quality of care has been well worth the price for me, and your situation sounds worse than mine. It is not a requirement of medical care that it be effectively free. You can choose to pay for it! Direct primary is generally quite affordable and worth it, particularly if the regular system is not working for you. The services I have subscribed to over the last fifteen years have generally been in the neighborhood of $60/mo for an adult, and they tend to pay for themselves quite quickly -- once or twice a year, I have some sort of debilitating problem, and a doctor who knows me and cares about me resolves the issue in a matter of hours. Compared to waiting weeks for a non-solution, that's a bargain! Some people make up the fee just in the money they save on prescriptions. Seriously look into it.