Emergency rooms take Visa and no provider wants to see you without a clear idea of exactly who will pay them and when. The flip side of every medical sign-in chart includes several spots where your signature commits you to full, prompt payment. Only the elderly and poor, thanks to Medicaid and Medicare, receive government-funded health care. As a mere patient, I watched Oxford s fiascos with weary bemusement. It isn t simple.
None are cheap.
Some plans are terribly restrictive. I found my family doctor somewhat randomly, through a recommendation from my radiologist. But the links were to matter greatly. Talk about conflict of interest. From our first meeting, in March of 1996, I liked this GP enormously.