Teledoc, Is This Obamacare?

July 5, 2013 — health care, insurance, Obamacare, Teledoc

For the first time since I was a child house calls from doctors are available to me. My insurance company just sent me a card to access doctors on the phone for $38 or less per consult. Now they are talking!!!!  They sent me a notice recently to advise me that I may get a rebate under the new health care law, and I need only sit tight and wait for news of said rebate.  Now they sent me cards to allow me to consult doctors without going to a creepy doctor’s office full of cooties.  This is progress.  I have made no attempt to understand how the new laws will work in my case.  I have never taken any prescription drugs, and avoid contact with medical professionals at all costs.  I have received very little in return for my premium payments for the last 12 years. I have no use for most of what they cover.

If this is Obamacare I want more of it.  Nothing makes more sense to me than using our resources much more wisely in the health care business. I set up an account with the insurance company, provide medical history, and then I can request a consult.  I don’t even have to go to  drug store clinic;I just call or Skype.  This is the most rational move I could imagine.  I never trust medical doctors to diagnose correctly, which is essential for a good outcome.  I would be a much happier patient if I had no mandatory wait in a room with a bunch of sick people.  My experiences with my parents’ health care issues left permanent scars on my belief in doctors.  I am very enthusiastic about the idea that Teledoc comes to me on my terms, and if there are pharma salesmen in the house serving tacos to the obese Teledoc office staff I will have no awareness of it.