Quote:Concierge service has been around a while, it only became viable because of Obama care...


So this 400 a month you predict, is that just for you, or for your family?


As for social security, start a thread on it. There's already too much here to add another topic

The mid 90s isn't that long. Traditional healthcare has been entrenched since the second world war. Over time practices have become dependent on it. It will take time for a competing structure of risk management to filter through the system.


Aside from not outlawing it you have yet to give a shred of evidence to support the idea that obamacare did anything to directly bolster concierge practices. Are they on the exchanges and i just missed them?


Direct pay to care providers can save tons of real dollars in both premiums and out of pocket expenses for everyone. If going to the Er cost 1500 for stitches and your primary care doctor can just squeeze you in for free between patients that's real money for the insurer and the insured out of pocket expenses.


The problem with debates on. Health care is that too often they focus solely on premiums and not on the underlying cost of providing care. This would be moving to a much more efficient and inexpensive means of providing care for families and would relieve the burden on the insurance system and a lot of emergency room visits.


Is it perfect? Nothings perfect. But it moves a long way towards efficient management of risk.


As for the national old age survivor and disability program there's not enough to start a thread about. The feds made a decision based on a 19th century understanding of the capital markets and the private sector beat it to a pulp demoralized it and watched it steam off towards bankruptcy. Nothing else to really talk about.

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