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Originally Posted by champion6
I believe it is simply a multi-location clinic, staffed with doctors and staff who focus on primary care. They will prefer (require?) that your insurance be the Medicare Advantage plan offered by United Healthcare, which is called MedicareComplete Choice Plan 2. This insurance plan is a PPO, not an HMO. Therefore, yuou can choose your own doctors.
I don't think the national health insurer is hidden in the background. Morse specifically mentioned the United Healthcare Medicare Advantage plan.
I am no expert in this field by any stretch of the imagination. But in my opinion both of the above posts seem to confuse and incorrectly tie together two completely separate businesses: A) the business of owning a medical practice (aka clinic) which provides primary care services to patients, and B) the business of selling insurance which pays for medical services.
The developer has announced that he is going to offer "A" and he is willing to take the financial risk. After all, we are not obligated to use the doctors in these new clinics.
The developer is not going to get into offering "B." That will be done by existing insurance companies.
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There is an article about the subject on page A8 of today's (Sunday) Daily Sun. It is not particularly informative about how the system will work, but we are again assured that it will be just like Marcus Welby.
If you are interested in ownership of the new health system, go to:
Detail by Entity Name
Then, look up the members (owners) of the Villages Health Holding Company at
Detail by Entity Name
As I have said in an earlier post, I think that the new health facilities are probably a good thing for Villagers and, if the Developer can earn another fortune from setting them up and running them, good for him. He has done a terrific job with his other endeavors here. I just wish that the Daily Sun would give us the facts of the matter (pros and cons) and not run Developer "Marcus Welby" press releases as news.