MD VIP Continued

On doctors and their VIP patients - Sheehan - NewsObserver.com:
"When I wrote recently about so-called concierge doctors' practices - docs who charge an annual fee for more attentive care - I tried to tell the other side of this story, and not just by quoting angry patients who felt jilted. I talked to a medical ethicist who saw nothing alarming with the trend.
Turns out, I should have talked to one of the family doctors NOT switching to concierge.
I should have talked to Dr. Adam Goldstein.
"The reality is, this is about profit," Goldstein said. After all, 600 patients at $1,500 a year is $900,000 on top of insurance payments."

This is a NewsObserver follow up to a previous article describing the trend by doctors to offer VIP a.k.a. Concierge services.With all of the fuss that's going on about health care reform, the question boils down to just one thing, who's going to pay for medical service. The answer of course is you. Either by oppressive new taxes or MD VIP fees, it will be the middle class who will pay. Not the rich, not the poor, not Civil Servants or the "Gang of 535." It will be what ever is left of the middle class, retired or working, who will be burdened with the cost of paying for themselves and everyone else.

After reading the N&O article, I was reminded of a comment from a recent Ann Coulter editorial, which read in part: "...... the liberal argument for national health care was that it wasn't fair that some people -- "the rich" -- have access to better health care than others. Instead of being honest and telling us that their plan is to make health care worse and more expensive -- but fairer! -- liberals have recently begun claiming that providing universal health care will actually save money."

According to the article it looks like Ann is right, health care will get worse and more expensive, one way or the other.

Just in case you missed them, the following are links to my previous posts regarding the subject of  MD VIP services:
            Two Tier Health Care Trend  
            Mayo Clinic Opting Out Of Medicare