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Insurance Deductibles and How the Changes Will Affect Health Care Professionals

First of all, let me make clear that I do "please make me sick insurance"? And I
not really know what will happen. I can am very literal when I say illness
however for sure tell you that, like the treatment insurance = "insurance to get
stock market, the game is fixed!! sick." Who knows, but I bet that with
Yes, I mean just that. You will never their high deductibles, patients will
win. Las Vegas is a pale comparison when wake up and insist on wellness care -
it comes to ripping people off. What real health care; which keeps them
people? You, the doctor, of course - if healthy; which will include food
it is not already clears to you that the supplements, advice on exercise, massage,
patients also get ripped off too! Now chiropractic, physical therapy, simple
that you know that I know nothing about health knowledge such as a round of 4-5
the game of the insurance companies and ice cold and hot showers every day
all the hula-hoop of the government, of keeping your blood circulation going,
why, how, and when to expect that you the nutritional advice and more, much more.
doctor and all the patients participating This above reasoning is also heavily
in it will ever win. underlined by a decade-long trend into
Here is however what seems to be on the the natural, alternative and holistic
horizon: wave of medicine, which cannot possibly
People will start to think that because be overlooked. It has grown into a
companies start choosing insurances with multi-billion dollar industry.
high annual deductibles, that such will People are waking up to real health care
be a good thing. All insurance, in the the same way as when they started seeking
first place, is supposed to take care of freedom instead of slavery. And frankly,
huge and completely unmanageable this should scare the average doctor who
circumstances. does not want to use this trend to
So insurance was a good idea. But like provide such services to demanding
most good ideas it has been perverted patients. With the advent of the
such as the child labor union. It was a Internet, the public gets educated faster
good idea when they actually did prevent than ever on new ways and the Drug
child slavery but now it makes sure that companies will have a hell of a time
we create a young civilization that has keeping those vital and very workable
no value until their eighteenth year or alternatives from them!
so because child labor protection forbids And you the doctor better be prepared to
the young active energetic 14 year old do the following:
from working and to participate and feel Realize that you first will have to
useful, despite the fact that just about market to those high deductible
any successful captain of industries will individuals.
tell you how they contributed to their Your staff better be prepared to explain
families' survival at age 10 and younger! the need for minor services very well or
You get the point! those patients will walk out without
Back to insurances. If people pay the leaving you much money and probably never
every day cost of health care and only come back either. Realize that
insure the "out of reach items" - let's preventive health care will take on a
say $4,000 and above per year, then cost whole new meaning to the patients, and
of insurance will go down by at least the doctors. If you the doctor do not get
$4,000, if not more!! And yet the actual on the bandwagon (no matter how much the
everyday health care cost per person will AMA or FDA etc. might protest) then the
in most cases be less that a $1,000 per MLM guy and the casual quacks will get
month and rarely more than $3,500 for the bulk of those $3,000 per year from
elders. hundreds of millions of people.
So, in effect they would be saving money! So, there are really no pitfalls, except
Indeed they would. not realizing and working hard and fast
Keep in mind that if the patient pays the and early on acquiring the practice
doctor, there is automatically an awful management/marketing skills to get your
lot less paperwork to administer by the share.
doctors' office and by the insurance. Nobody will pass a law that you HAVE to
This means savings for all - the doctor, get your share!! Oh no!! The effort by
the patient, the insurance companies. the AMA and the drug companies of putting
Anyhow, quite a few people in government, everyone in jail who helps someone to get
insurance and private economists are healthy or recover without drugs will be
grinding around that topic. Economical put to rest because people are
self-evidence will, I think, get it in maintaining their health or getting well.
the direction of high deductibles a bit As national negotiator Mr. Karass says:
more every month. "In life you do not get what you deserve
This will, despite of it being a good - you get only what you negotiate!"
thing, introduce opportunities and And then, there is this:
pitfalls for the individual practitioner. "If the doctor of today does not become
It is simply a change and must be dealt the nutritionist of tomorrow then the
with accordingly. There are no pitfalls nutritionist of today will be the doctor
except if the individual practitioner of tomorrow" - Rockefeller Institute of
does not start early enough in realizing Medical Research, New York.
that it will change the way he can Or as Hippocrates, the Father of
attract new patients. Keep in mind those Medicine, and the person whose oath most
new patients with high deductibles will of you Doctors take, said:
now be paying cash for their services and "All medicine is food and all foods are
will not be bound to go where their medicine."
insurance tells them to go!! Hm!! There are many ways on how to create an
It is a dream come true for those who advantage for you and the patients you
know how to cater to those millions of will be seeing, and some ways will fit
free running patients. Patients might of you better than others but the most
course also delay some regular small important thing will be to look at many
treatments, because they now have to pay ways - kick them around, ask your
and thus you need to do a better job at consultants, or read books. Simply take
enlightening or educating the patients, initiative to find out, don't be afraid
and tending to their health. of mistakes and due to this fear of
Marketing and selling is part of the mistakes sink into doing nothing until
patient's education. Avoid becoming a you are absolutely sure and until it has
marketing/management expert because you been proven to work for others. If you
are a clinical expert and you perish. wait and wait and see and see then, well,
Because, last but not least, there will you most likely will once more cry
be a shift in what services people will "victim!" in a few short years. Followers
demand. Oh yes - there will be an are sheep, - sheep get killed. Followers
emphasis on preventive care versus don't make money and have little personal
illness treatment. satisfaction.
You see, insurances have never really Sorry but that is how it will be - in my
paid for staying healthy; they only humble opinion!
reimburse the patients for treatment A new opportunity is on the horizon. The
needed if sick. Don't ask me for the first few figuring out how to use it will
rationality and how insurances get away be the winners and will eat up a bunch of
with it. After all, it not only costs the rest. But that is nothing new in
less to keep a person healthy than that, isn't it? Read "The Grocery Store
getting him back to health, it is also Future of the Medical Practitioner."
more pleasant! Readers of this issue will have no excuse
Why did the public fall for this health if they end up in the wrong group, the
care insurance scam when it is really a ones which get devoured by the mavericks!




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