More, please

Doctors abandon insurance, go with cash only business model.  I truly wish I could find one of these places around where I live.  I'd have the Mrs. go there rather than trusting on Tricare.  Tricare, being a government insurance plan, pays out almost nothing to the doctors, and hence is accepted in fewer and fewer places.  Medicare is being accepted in fewer and fewer places.  This isn't an "accident".  The government cannot run a massive program with any kind of success.  They just can't.  Name one government program in my lifetime that has done the job it was given up to standard and without going over budget - you can't.  It.  Does.  Not.  Exist.

I'm honestly happy to see doctors turning away from insurance, because too many people today don't even understand what they're paying for their health care.

While the cash-only model may please doctors, some question whether it's good for middle- and low-income people.  

Kathleen Stoll, director of health policy at the consumer advocacy group Families U.S.A., didn't want to speak directly to either Petersen's or Nunamaker's practice, as she didn't know the specifics of each.  

But in general, she fears that doctors who switch to a cash-only model will drive away the patients who can't afford a monthly membership fee or thousands of dollars for an operation.

I don't know, how bad will it be when people are paying thousands of dollars per month for health insurance that isn't accepted by any doctors around them, Ms. Stoll?  Hell, people on Obamacare are already finding it hard to get a doctor to accept their plan, which I think is just awesome.  The sooner Obamacare fails the better.