Concierge Medicine and Carpetbaggers (Concierge Medicine Blog)

Concierge Medicine and Carpetbaggers (Concierge Medicine Blog): "Few doctors would argue with the fact that it was the middleman — specifically the third-payers — who destroyed our medical system. Despite some good sales talk, these people did nothing to improve the quality of medical care that we delivered to our patients. To the contrary, they took a large portion of the healthcare dollar for their own profits and administrative fees, rationed care to our patients and robbed doctors in the process. These business folk came under the guise that they were here to 'do good,' to 'help us,' to create things like 'Health Maintenance Organizations' to prevent disease in our patients."