Thoughts on concierge medicine?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 29 Jun 2018 04:51:28 +0000

Creekland:

I’m curious if those totally against concierge medicine (in general - not meaning it’s simply not worth the cost to you in your situation) cut back to the pure basics on other necessities too (food, clothing, shelter) in order to keep everything fair and affordable to all. Then, of course, one has to wonder if only public schools are worthy (K-12 and college).

I do not object to concierge medicine in general, but it appears to be mostly an expensive luxury in an already-expensive medical care system. The main concern generally would be if it draws away too many PCPs so that it significantly worsens the shortage of PCPs (since each concierge PCP sees fewer patients, reducing the overall number of patients that can be seen if more of the PCPs are concierge) to the point that one either has to pay concierge or go without a PCP.