In the US it's not easy to find a primary care provider also. When we moved couple of years ago and called a local medical center to establish a primary care provider, we were given answers like "we have the nearest appointments in 6-8 months". If you have something urgent, there's telemedicine line where you can talk to advice nurse or if there's something really urgent, get an appointment with an urgent care doctor. But all primary care providers seem to be booked solid for months. And given how many patients they'd have and how often they see each one, establishing any kind of personal care relationship is out of the question. How personal can it be if you can see you doctor twice a year for 20 minutes? I think the only solution is go get rich enough so you can afford personal concierge doctors or however it is called (no idea since I'm not rich enough).
No, it isn't. Most people pay about that much for their cable. For the bottom 20 percent, yes, it is a budget-buster.
However, that is beside the point. Believe me, I hate explaining simple, simple things--but the person I was responding to is probably comfortably middle or upper-middle class and could afford a miserable 2000/year on a doctor. He doesn't have to become "rich enough", and almost 100 percent of the people in this thread don't have to either.
What I can find around me with a quick look sounds like about ~$400/m, or $4800/yr - which I could handle if I had to, but it would sting (especially as I still would have to pay my regular health insurance, of course). And there doesn't seem to be all that much choice - at least in places where I know to look.
