Local Doctor Ditches Insurance for a Community Based Approach

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A local doctor in Georgia is taking a community based approach to provide more quality healthcare at an affordable rate.

 
By Andrew Freeman

With the government, big pharma and the insurance companies making it impossible for anyone to get decent healthcare, there are many doctors reaching out and attempting to solve these problems independently as best as they can.
One recent case was reported by a local NBC affiliate in Georgia:

Dr. Robert Lamberts in Martinez is changing the world of healthcare, at least in his office. He doesn’t accept insurance, Medicare or Medicaid. Instead, He’s charging patients a flat monthly rate to be their primary care doctor as much as they need.

“We don’t control the system,” said Lamberts. “It’s the insurance companies and the government that control our healthcare system up to now. I felt like I was on a hamster wheel every day, and at the end of the day I was not able to give the kind of care that I wanted to give.  It’s financially in doctors and hospitals best interest for you to be sick, for you to need stuff, for you to have to come in.”
The article also gave the following patient review:

Mark and Lisa Pendlebery are patients of Lamberts, and like 85 percent of his patients they also have health insurance. They tell me they pay the extra money for Lambert’s accessibility and quality of care.
“If you go to the doctor twice a month, you’ve already paid more than you pay here because you don’t pay a co-pay every time you go,” Mark talked about how he actually saves money through Lamberts service.
Lambert says that he has a national following of other doctors monitoring his success and considering the same move.

“If I can prove that we can save money, if I can prove that patients are happier, that doctors are happier,” said Lamberts.
Lamberts currently has about 250 patients. He wants to grow his practice to around a thousand patients and hire another nurse, dietician and councilor.