I'm just short of 50 and never experienced house calls but i do know they used to be the normal way to see you doctor up until the i think the 60's? Would there be anything standing in the way of doctors doing house calls outside of the scam we call insurance?
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Nope, some actually do. Think Frontline Doctors are making an effort to build a separate health system outside of insurance and big systems. A new system, not bent over by big pharma, and where docs and nurses #1 focus is helping people. Sounds pretty sweet.
I would absolutely join something offered by those guys.
It's a great idea.
I envision paying a doctor a flat rate for the year (premium) and then co-pays depending service per visit. Cut the insurance company right out of the picture.
Some dentists do this now.
We are gonna go back to a golden age. It will be less "convinient" for some but i think its gonna be amazing. Prosperous, free, health and wealth. Just a little tougher for a while 21st century wild west
Next would have to be independent pharmacist. Even if you have ethical Dr’s that would make house calls, if they prescribe medications that aren’t “politically correct” (HCQ, Ivermectin, etc), you still run into a corrupt pharmacy industry that would not fill said prescriptions like they’re doing now.
Many compounding pharmacies will fill prescriptions.
There still are some. A couple decades a big move was made to force most of them out of business.
We just need the medicines shipped from India to get here faster.
There is nothing standing in their way today, other than the bottleneck of doctors' time being micromanaged by insurance billing and ridiculous overhead, and a general shortage of doctors. Doctors today, in most places in the U.S., could easily work 20 hours/day without ever leaving the office, meaning that every step away from their office is literally denying time to another patient. To optimize their time with patients they work in the office almost exclusively.
I remember house calls from our family doctor in the '50s. Doc had a black back with instruments and some meds. My sibs and I had Chickenpox and Measles (among other things) handled that way.
Yes, house calls were real and not terribly expensive (so I've read, and my father's reaction to the bills would seem to back that up).
I'm glad I make herbal medicine. That system will need to implode before I dare step foot in any medical facility for awhile.
Well then there’s that ugly word MALPRACTICE. And this type of insurance can be manipulated to such a high dollar—already is—many can’t afford to practice independently.
In a way this is being revived. Tele-med and tele-house calls are the new “thing”. Our Dr provides her personal cell phone number and will actually come to our house if requested but we would only do that if absolutely necessary. Her practice has been written about on Gab, Gatewat Pundit and other New Mainstream Media outlets. I just saw a video of Dr Kari Maddey (sp?) starting an Underground Medical Service that is not a part of the Cabals network if doctors and hospitals. The divide will be good and will bankrupt the establishment.
Adding a second thought I wish there would be a collapse but never underestimate the power of corruption to prop up a failing enterprise. Remember too big to fail for banks? Think about health care system. Obamacare subsidies were just a small taste.
That's right! Force the democrats to write laws preventing this by revoking licenses and threatening arrests. Call their bluff!
I hope it’s possible Medicine was coopted by big government when wage controls in WWII and ERISA allowed health insurance favorable tax treatment. Medicare came along in 1964 and completed the takeover.
These actions removed the true doctor patient relationship and added a third party Eventually this 3rd party took over Now note who is left out...the patient is most helpless because they “pay” so little to the system but actually pay for it!
Government regulations are the biggest barrier because thanks to licensing requirements most doctors and nurses are beholden to complying somewhat with whatever bs government imposes.
Something has to be done a out the State Boards and medical licensing What is to stop a state from yanking a doc's license?
the next step from the establishment would be mass suspensions and revocations of medical licenses once all these doctors started working independently of the narrative.