Health Care the way it should be practiced.
A number of years ago I got to wondering about saving insurance dollars by paying my doctor so much a month in return for an agreement for him to keep me healthy. Basically what I was looking at was an alternative to the standard health care policy. I figured instead of paying insurance to cover doctor’s visits in a reactive fashion I could pay him for providing me both proactive and reactive care. The better he and I were at the proactive practice the less he’d see me in reactive mode which should result in him making more off of me and seeing me less while I saved some insurance dollars and stayed in better health.
My doctor told me that it was an interesting idea but if he did that he would have to change his practice to this style only and accept no insurance or medicare/medicaid patients and he wasn’t going to leave his current patients in a lurch to test out this idea.
Well, it seems I wasn’t alone in thinking of this business model for doctors and now some have attempted to put it into practice. Other’s have attempted to put it into practice but have run into some bureaucratic road blocks.
For those of you who might be interested, not accepting insurance for payment allows for a list of fees for services like this. Government intervention is not required.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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