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Being a "multi-millionaire with access to the best healthcare" in the US means that you sit in the same queues as everyone else.

The best you can do is concierge care, but that only expedites primary care everything in the US is about specialists.



Hahaha, huh?

If you have access to the best healthcare you definitely don’t wait in the same queues. You have direct access to the specialists, often at the best teaching hospitals too.

If you have Medicare, good luck.


I don't know what you think "direct access to specialists" is.

I have concierge medicine. I have two specialist appointments scheduled both take about 3mo.

I can see my PCP within 1 day. That is good. I can have blood drawn within 1 day. That's good.

Specialists, no advantage. This makes it not overly valuable, but what do you expect for 8k extra for year (on top of very good health care)?

I don't know how to access a higher tier of health. Perhaps at 100M+ of net worth it appears. IDK.


Like Stanford pulmonologist in less than a week for an asthma eval.

Meanwhile, my Mom waited months on Medicare for a heart eval due to arrhythmias.

Whatever plan you have, it doesn’t sound top tier?

This didn’t require high net worth, just a better plan through an employer - or you’re in an area with low specialist populations? Or some sort of low priority on a triage schedule?

If you have mm net worth, the specialists come to you - quickly - unless you really need the .001% specialist. and chances are you they don’t and it’s not worth it.

But even Kaiser had no issues giving less than a week access for anything important.




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