In response to:
"These problems loom even larger considering the aim of the Affordable Care Act to provide all Americans with health insurance -- and with it, more regular contact with a primary care doctor."
So your IDIOTIC solution is to have less patients going to primary care physicians so we do not have a shortage??? You liked the status quo of lore uninsured people getting sicker staying away from physicians so they are not overloaded. WOW!!!!
What is your solution you freaking IDIOTS? How does the private insurance industry and the free market solve this problem...please do tell.
Just in case the unaffordable price tag and rising costs don't quite do the trick, America's spiraling dearth of doctors will contribute heavily to the collapse of our re-engineered health care system, according to a new study:
The United States will require at least 52,000 more family doctors in the year 2025 to keep up with the growing and increasingly older U.S. population, a new study found. The predictions also reflect the passage of the Affordable Care Act -- a change that will expand health insurance coverage to an additional 38 million Americans. "The health care...
WRONG! It does matter..because what was happening before was worse. Physicians issue was the same, costs were skyrocketing, and people were sicker with less access to healthcare. Yet private companies making profits and executives making exorbitant compensation packages.
let people PAY for themselves,
stop forcing hospitals to accept illegals. kick the illegals out and let Americans have those jobs back.