moistclump, 2 years ago

No one is answering your question.

I live in a town of about 5,000 people. General practitioners near me make about $500,000. If everyone was forced to pay in that would be $100 each a year.

But then there would be a lease and an administrator doing the appointments etc… Hopefully the administrator can handle the payments too. Lease $5,000 a month and administrator $5,000 a month. Ooh medical supplies. I’m not sure. $2,500/ month? Still only adds $30/year for those 5,000 people.

1 practitioner would be available on average 20 minutes per person a year (assuming 4 weeks off and 40 hour work weeks) but I bet there’s around 500 people who take up most of the doctors time with their stuff and then thousands that only see them once every couple of years.

To scale up would add another $100 a year per doctor per resident of this 5,000 person team and probably up to 3 or so doctors the other costs wouldn’t change significantly.

It’s an interesting thought. Thanks for asking!