For only $49 per month and $10 per visit, MedLion is able to provide high quality medicine at a price point nearly any family can afford.
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Breaking the stanglehold of the insurance companies is the single most important thing we can do to decrease health care costs in the US.
Of course, ObamaCare did exactly the opposite. The Republican plans weren’t any better. Every serious health care reform proposal in 2008 was bought and paid for by the insurance lobby long before anybody in Congress even debated the issue.
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I call “Bullshit!” It doesn’t replace the need for insurance, as it’s primary care only. So, basically you pay $49/month (per person? family?) “insurance” for primary care and who knows how much for major medical!
Who said anything about eliminating insurance? You don’t call Nationwide when you need an oil change, so why do we need insurance if we have a sinus infection? The problem with medical insurance is that it’s not insurance, it’s prepaid medical care. Primary care should be completely outside of insurance. Insurance should be for truly unexpected events like breaking a leg, or cancer. Nothing a primary care doc does is that expensive – there in no reason it can’t be delivered at a reasonable cost direct to the health care consumer.
This guy is making a minimum of $588 per patient. I’m willing to bet that exceeds the average revenue per patient for a primary care practice.
I remember hearing about something like this back in the late 90s or so. IIRC, I saw a story by John Stossel (sp? not worth looking up), but I thought the idea had some merit at the time. Unfortunately, it seems to be slow in catching on.
In unrelated news, have you seen this? http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/5588/lbg-v-idoni/
Thought you might want to read this one, too: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/06/20/ground-level-rural-health-care-renegade-rural-doctor/
But this means I am paying $588 for the one time a year I need to see a doctor about a sinus infection.
Plus what I would need to pay for catastrophic coverage? Plus what I would need to pay for chronic problems like high blood pressure (teenaged son in our case)?
How much does that cost for a family of four, for instance?