A lot has happened in 2009, and healthcare has been one of the most talked about topics of the entire year. From the moment Obama took office at the beginning of 2009, everyone has been waiting for healthcare to pass. Is this healthcare bill the one that we all wanted? Perhaps not, and perhaps that’s why concierge medicine and boutique practices have grown so dramatically in 2009.
We have written so many blogs about the drama that good old Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have stirred up, and the town hell meetings that sprung up around the nation. Ah, those town hell meetings sure were entertaining, weren’t they? Remember those protests that involved Obama-Hitler posters and gun-toting Republicans? Good times, good times.
And then there was the death of a great American; Senator Ted Kennedy. There were not many politicians who fought as hard for as long for healthcare reform then Senator Kennedy.
While congress bickered and fought over healthcare, over 45 million American’s struggled with a lack of healthcare, unbelievable medical costs, and debt that was never expected. Market based solutions begin to pop up to make up for the lack of urgency by our government, and clinics, cash services, and concierge practices became the new and more effective healthcare alternatives.
The No Insurance Club took on healthcare in 2009, and we began to grow by leaps and bounds. Our alternative to those big, greedy insurance companies has given patients a solution to expensive medical costs.
What will 2010 bring for the No Insurance Club? Only time will tell.
