Your health care is covered, but who’s going to treat you?
By Jacque Wilson, CNN 6/29/12
When an additional 32 million Americans get medical insurance, who exactly is going to treat them?…A physician shortage in the U.S. was expected even before the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Now the group estimates that there will be a shortage of 63,000 doctors by 2015 and 130,600 by 2025.
And if you think nurses can step into fill the gap, turns out there’s a shortage there too.