Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Doctor as renegade -- accepts cash, checks, eggs or pie, not insurance

Via The Dorkfish Express


7 comments:

  1. This lady is Doc Baker of today. Anyone wondering what I am talking about is "Little House on the Prairie" What ever happen to people like her. This is the human equations at it best.

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  2. THIS LADY---DOCTOR---IS BRINGING US BACK TO THE YEARS WHEN
    DOCTORS DID FOR PEOPLE WHAT WAS NEEDED.
    THEIR LAST CONCERN WAS "INSURANCE"---"PAYMENT" ----THEY
    WERE DEDICATED TO TREATING SICK PEOPLE.
    I GREW UP DURING THE 1930'S AND 40'S AND I REMEMBER THESE DOCTORS.
    FRED

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  3. Yes, my father was one. "A Country Doctor"

    http://postimage.org/image/9yvkceu6z/

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  4. Back in early 1980 in NH when my first daughter was due my wife and I met with the doctor she chose who later became our family doctor. He took insurance but preferred to barter for any monies insurance did not cover and would do so with people who had no insurance. If your kids were sick he usually said he did not want sick children around healthy women and children so he would do a house call often picking up medicine from a pharmacy on his way if he knew in advance what you needed. When our second child was due 4 years later he oversaw the home birth which amounted to his sitting on the porch with me in rocking chairs sipping on dark beer waiting for the two midwives to call us in when it was time. He was only there because NH law at the time required a physician to be there in case there was need to make the call for an ambulance. His charge for that home birth was the two beers he drank and he took home four that were left over. We only had to pay the midwives. Even though it was our biggest baby my wife said it was her easiest delivery being at home and being attended by two experienced midwives. easiest for me too cuz sitting on the front porch sipping cold beer while you wait sure beats the hospital scene. His name was Dr, Hope and he was one of a kind even for the 80's in NH.

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  5. Beautiful woman, obviously good Doctor.
    I too thank MD (above) for the beautiful story~!

    Locally there's a practice starting up that's (IIRC) "Boutique medicine"... You pay them $1500(individual)-$2500(family) and you get...
    Doc has a limited number of patients
    24 x 7 x 365 access
    House-calls if needed
    30 minute appointments if needed
    Same or next-day appointments if needed
    And so on... -- and NO INSURANCE BS TO BE DEALT WITH!

    This is a beautiful thing - Doc gets to make a nice living commensurate with his investment in education, but limits his number of patients so he can really get to know you. Without all the insurance BS he can do a better job of paying attention to YOU...

    It also gives him the right and ability to take on a certain number of "charity cases" or "bothersome old-folks" with lots of problems but still balance his load so he can do a good job for *EVERYONE*!!

    All the way around it's a tremendous deal -- but of course it was IMMEDIATELY attacked by the poverty-pimps as "elitist" and so-on...

    "What about the po' folk -- where we s'pose-ta go if he don' take our (welfare) 'insurance'??!! How'z-come WE can't get top-shelf care like that (without even a JOB, much less paying ANYTHING for it)?"

    Predictable as the sunrise... but I really don't think it matters...

    At least not until the communists pull out all the stops and implement their REAL agenda: the outright ENSLAVEMENT of Doctors... Which really isn't far off - though The Enemy isn't honest enough to call it that, it's where they (we) are headed...

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  6. it's where they (we) are headed...

    If they get their way.

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