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I don't know what you think "direct access to specialists" is.

I have concierge medicine. I have two specialist appointments scheduled both take about 3mo.

I can see my PCP within 1 day. That is good. I can have blood drawn within 1 day. That's good.

Specialists, no advantage. This makes it not overly valuable, but what do you expect for 8k extra for year (on top of very good health care)?

I don't know how to access a higher tier of health. Perhaps at 100M+ of net worth it appears. IDK.



Like Stanford pulmonologist in less than a week for an asthma eval.

Meanwhile, my Mom waited months on Medicare for a heart eval due to arrhythmias.

Whatever plan you have, it doesn’t sound top tier?

This didn’t require high net worth, just a better plan through an employer - or you’re in an area with low specialist populations? Or some sort of low priority on a triage schedule?

If you have mm net worth, the specialists come to you - quickly - unless you really need the .001% specialist. and chances are you they don’t and it’s not worth it.

But even Kaiser had no issues giving less than a week access for anything important.




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