Outside of that DPC model others mention, it's very difficult for doctors to do. And while most people think of going to a doctor's office - family medicine, i

Outside of that DPC model others mention, it's very difficult for doctors to do. And while most people think of going to a doctor's office - family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, or OB/GYN - as what doctors do, they're actually a minority of doctors, and OB/GYN's do a lot of their work in the hospital. Some of us - I'm an anesthesiologist, but also radiologists, pathologists, critical care doctors, and so forth - don't have a clinic at all. Nobody's going to pay me a monthly or yearly fee, and establishing a billing relationship that doesn't involve insurance would be a real nightmare.