Tag Archives: concierge medicine

U.S. health care warning signs

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Brian Schwartz

Doctors struggling to make ends meet; ObamaCare at 2 years old: bad news;Commercial insurers have trouble staying in business;Drug companies are less ambitious; Super-high health plan premiums. Continue reading →

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Primary Care Can Be Comprehensive and Convenient for $2 a Day

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

For example of how people can get primary health care without insurance, see John Goodman’s post: Primary Care Can Be Comprehensive and Convenient for $2 a Day. Goodman notes that “all this will go away, however, if Obama Care is … Continue reading →

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Concierge medicine: doctors tire of dealing with politically-controlled insurance

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Brian Schwartz

Concierge medicine “potentially poses a big threat to Medicare and to the new world of medical care envisioned under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul. ” Continue reading →

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A Radically Different Approach to Health Insurance

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Brian Schwartz

John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis writes: [B]efore the current era, the most common form of health insurance — other than Blue Cross plans — was indemnity insurance with a fee schedule. A typical benefit consisted of … Continue reading →

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Market-based alternatives to big-government health care reform

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

Congress to Healthcare Market: Drop Dead, economics Professor Mark J. Perry summarizes “market-based healthcare solutions have gone largely unnoticed, despite the fact that they have successfully lowered medical costs and improved both access and quality of service.” He describes the … Continue reading →

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NY Times: “Doctors Are Opting Out of Medicare”

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

A headline like this makes one wonder what “Medicare for All” would look like, or what effect President Obama’s proposed “public plan” would have on physicians.  It illustrates again that having medical “coverage” is not the same as getting the … Continue reading →

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N.Y. Bureaucrats vs. Dr. John Muney & the uninsured

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Brian Schwartz

The case of Dr. John Muney shows the outright injustice and immoral nature of government regulations that rob us of our individual rights to associate with one another in a peaceful manner.  Next time you talk about mandated benefits on … Continue reading →

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Concierge Medicine in Maryland

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Brian Schwartz

From the Baltimore Sun: The physicians at Charter Internal Medicine in Columbia are overhauling the practice, ditching the insurance-dependent model and instead charging a flat yearlyfee in exchange for the promise of 24-hour access to doctors, unhurried appointments, home visits … Continue reading →

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