Re: Consumer Driven Fee-For-Service Health Care Makes A Comeback
How about Procard International? http://www.procardinternational.com/
They have dental for $9.95 AND they've got PizzaDelivery.com as a partner company! AND as of a few minutes ago, they're an accredited business with the BBB.
Or how about passing up the middlemen and contacting one of the doctors or dentists listed on the website and ask them to give you a discount for cash service (maybe even ask to split the $20 monthly fee--$10 for his/her trouble).
Seriously, I understand that the health system in the USA is screwed up, but the MLM companies are more about making money through recruiting people who provide them money, not only through sales of <in this case> health care cards (which deliver no guarantees of availability of medical services), but are making the lion's share of their income by selling IBO kits, websites, dvds, training materials and advertising material; and the monthly dues of their "brokers." At the core, these MLMs are all the same...they only differ in the type of "legitimate" product they are pushing.
The nuts and bolts of MLMs caught my attention while I was in college and saw a fun-loving, newly married couple I knew turn into Amway pod-people almost overnight....it was one of the reasons I chose to write a research paper on MLMs.
Shelly, it's far too easy to be a critic from afar. I'd like to know what your solution is for providing any type of affordable medical or dental care for the 48 million people in the U S who can't afford what the health insurance industry is asking.[/LEFT]
How about Procard International? http://www.procardinternational.com/
They have dental for $9.95 AND they've got PizzaDelivery.com as a partner company! AND as of a few minutes ago, they're an accredited business with the BBB.
Or how about passing up the middlemen and contacting one of the doctors or dentists listed on the website and ask them to give you a discount for cash service (maybe even ask to split the $20 monthly fee--$10 for his/her trouble).
Seriously, I understand that the health system in the USA is screwed up, but the MLM companies are more about making money through recruiting people who provide them money, not only through sales of <in this case> health care cards (which deliver no guarantees of availability of medical services), but are making the lion's share of their income by selling IBO kits, websites, dvds, training materials and advertising material; and the monthly dues of their "brokers." At the core, these MLMs are all the same...they only differ in the type of "legitimate" product they are pushing.
The nuts and bolts of MLMs caught my attention while I was in college and saw a fun-loving, newly married couple I knew turn into Amway pod-people almost overnight....it was one of the reasons I chose to write a research paper on MLMs.
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