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Tx4obama

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Sat Oct 13, 2012, 06:14 PM Oct 2012

Here is one reason that the Super-Rich are not too concerned about health-care


The article is from back in March 2012, but it is interesting...



Super-Rich Americans Now Have Emergency Rooms In Own Homes

Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can pay for you to avoid the headache of a waiting room. And that's a start.

Some wealthy households are choosing to forgo health insurance in favor of paying a monthly fee -- totaling up to $30,000 per year -- for concierge medicine, or the ability to have access to their physicians anywhere, anytime, Bloomberg News reports. Some families even have emergency rooms in their own homes, which can cost $1 million.

Though the number of concierge patients remains small, 64 percent of all doctors believe that concierge medicine has the best chance of financial success today, according to a survey by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Concierge medicine first appeared in the mid-1990s, as some doctors wanted to spend more time with their patients and rich patients wanted to pay for better healthcare.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/concierge-medicine_n_1353155.html




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Here is one reason that the Super-Rich are not too concerned about health-care (Original Post) Tx4obama Oct 2012 OP
Yea, Michael Jackson had his own doctor.. Fla_Democrat Oct 2012 #1
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