A couple of years ago, Orange Cab driver Jagjit Singh, who lacked medical insurance, flew to his home country of India for a hernia operation, for which he paid $300 rather than the $16,000 he would have been charged in the U.S. Recently, Singh joined Qliance, a new boutique medical practice in downtown Seattle set to open on July 23. In fact, he says, so did roughly half of Orange Cab's drivers after hearing Qliance's pitch at the company's offices one day.
Singh is not your typical patient of a boutique medical practice; he earns about $50 or $60 a day—far less than the CEOs and other wealthy types who tend to pay the monthly, out-of-pocket fees that boutique (or concierge) practices charge for on-demand access to their doctors. That's because Qliance is not your typical boutique service. Indeed, it doesn't even like that term, which it says smacks of elitism.
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