Uwe Reinhardt wonders what took so long:
“I’m surprised it took this long for a model like concierge medicine to emerge,” Reinhardt said. “In contrast to education, where the offspring of the rich go to prep schools and then Ivy League universities, and the income-based justice system, U.S. health care seems almost egalitarian. Concierge medicine seems more natural.”
Reinhardt accuses the middle-class of hypocrisy in being bothered by a tier of medicine emerging above it while tolerating the tier below serving Medicaid patients and the uninsured.
