For the last few years, my medical care has been administered by a PA or a nurse...All the facilities around me are like that. 1 doctor for a few PA/nurses. I don't have major medical problems (that I know of...). But I'd rather have more medical professionals that studied for 8 years, than those who studied 2. If they aren't smart enough to be doctors, let the schooling weed them out.
I've had the same experience, but my complaint is that the services I'm going to them for don't require the services of a doctor at all. Most of the time, I am just going to get a prescription for something that I know I need, that for idiotic reasons I'm not allowed to just buy off the shelf.
Most of the time, I don't need Dr House. I need a warm body with a prescription pad. Occasionally a tailor, if I've sliced myself up.
That is a perfectly reasonable preference, but that the insurance system with unclear price differentiations makes difficult. You can make a copay larger for one and then people exert they preferences cost-effectively.
This actually would be my preference. I keep going to the same office because I have minor issues and the location is convenient for me. But one day I would prefer to see a doctor. Till that day, I should pay less for a "doctor's visit".
And actually, because I have a high deductible plan....I'm not paying a simple copay, but rather the full bill.
