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^The interesting thing is that many of his current problems are IMO certainly due in part to his private insurance that blocked visits to specialists at every turn for years. Either the doctors or group were incentivized to keep refilling the same prostrate medications year after year for his benign enlargement without ever ordering a full examination by an actual urologist. Meanwhile the window of opportunity to have minimally invasive procedures quickly slammed shut. Once he hit 65 and had Medicare the new doctors were like "WTF?? You should have been here ages ago! Now we have to subject you to the same risky procedure that prostrate cancer patients have to endure" Basically Medicare is cleaning up what private insurance encouraged its physicians to actively neglect. So pick your poison. For profit neglect and stalling or the socialist stuff.
But no matter who you go with as far as doctors check their peer rankings and get the absolute highest rated surgeon/specialist you can get even if you have to pay extra. In my father's case I have to wonder if that would have been possible under his previous private HMO. In speaking to one of the registered nurses at a top Florida hospital she admitted to me that despite working for a well funded hospital she did not have hospital coverage.