Patients should expect increasing difficulty accessing medical care, according to a survey of 13,575 physicians. The survey commissioned by The Physicians Foundation estimates that "44,250...physicians will be lost from the workforce in the next four years. The survey also found that over the next one to three years, more than 50 percent of physicians will cut back on patients seen, work part-time, switch to concierge medicine, retire, or take other steps likely to reduce patient access.
More cognitive dissonance --- how do you square this outcome with the intent of the new health care law?
It was supposed to make care more affordable, after all, that is the official name given to the act- Affordable Care Act. Even if it became more affordable, which it has not, how can it help if there are fewer doctors?
This one goes into the WTF file.
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