"Concierge care" a Prelude to the Coming Socialization of Medicine?

This is but one sad story of a physician taking the path away from treating traditionally-insured patients, and opting instead to beef up their income with patient-paid premiums for "personalized" care. I thought all doctors gave personalized health care, but maybe that's just me.

So are low insurance reimbursements driving doctors to this, or is it greed? Whichever, it looks to be a trend that is here to stay if medical care is in some way administered by the US government. If one looks to Canada and Britain, he will see examples of how well this works: inordinate waits (on the order of months for what is considered emergent care here, unless one is a member of a plan that guarantees faster access to a better doctor).

If one wants to stratify healthcare by class and income, making it nationalized is a hell of a good way to do it. And then the taxpayer can bail that out, too, since that seems to be the political trend these days.

Local doctors opting for concierge care:

"Dayhoff’s doctor is part of a trend of family physicians opting for personalized care, also called boutique, concierge or retainer health care.

Primary-care physicians facing low insurance reimbursement rates are forced to see thousands of patients a year to cover costs, doctors say. This overload is pushing many out of state, where reimbursement rates are higher, into specialties that pay better, or into personalized health care."