Doctors Provide Health Insurance At Lower Cost
POSTED: Monday, December 18, 2006
UPDATED: 3:24 pm CST December 18,
2006
HOUSTON -- More than a million Houstonians are living without health-care insurance. Until recently, Marisol Buritica was one of them until she joined a doctors' health plan."I really wanted to be insured but I did forgo being insured for about seven months," Buritica said."Not able to afford health care really should not be an excuse anymore for anybody," said Dr. Jesse Chang.Chang is president of Southwest Doctors. He wanted to reach out to employers and their employees who desperately needed quality health care at a reasonable price."If you can catch a problem before they occur or if you can catch a problem while it's still manageable, you can avoid a lot more severe illnesses," Chang said.For $25 a month, Affordable Primary Care allows for unlimited visits with Southwest Doctors' primary care physicians for a flat fee of $10 a visit.Additional family members can join for $20 a month.The program is offered to full or part-time employees regardless of any pre-existing conditions."If you have chronic medial conditions, diabetes, hypertension, which is high blood pressure, or if you have a cholesterol problem, those are things that we could manage for you in our clinic," Chang said.Buritica signed on and said she will save about $300 a year. It's money she will use to pay bills."My employer does offer insurance but it's extremely expensive and I didn't want that taken out of my paycheck, so this only being $10 a month, it was expertly affordable and I was able to have a primary care physician," she said.Southwest Doctors practice at 17 clinics throughout the Houston area. Besides primary care doctors, there are also internists, family practitioners and pediatricians.For more information, log on to www.affordableprimarycare.com .
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