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Doc Shortage Could Cause Healthcare Crash | Reduction

Doc Shortage Could Cause Healthcare Crash

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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 consumer that values the relationship with a personal physician, particularly in areas already struggling with access to primary care physicians should be aware of potential access challenges that they may face in the future if the production of primary care physicians does not increase," said Dr. Andrew Bazemore, director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care and co-author of the study published Monday in the Annals of Family Medicine.

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Stephen Petterson

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0.133328"There needs to be more primary care incentive programs that give a bonus to physicians who treat Medicaid patients in effort to reduce the compensation gap between specialists and primary care physicians," said Petterson, ...
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Dr. Andrew Bazemore

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0.0447802"The health care consumer that values the relationship with a personal physician, particularly in areas already struggling with access to primary care physicians should be aware of potential access challenges that they may face in the future if the production of primary care physicians does not increase," said Dr. Andrew Bazemore, ...
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Dr. Lee Green

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-0.0987676"It's pretty tough to convince medical students to go into primary care," said Dr. Lee Green, ...
0"They have to think about their debt," he said. ...
0.124916"They have to think about their debt," he said. "There are also issues of how physicians are respected and how we portray primary care to medical students."
Sentiment Stats:
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Dr. Randy Wexler

Overall Sentiment: -0.181191

Relevance: 0.617763

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0"Who is going to care for these people?" he said. ...
0.0574545"Who is going to care for these people?" he said. "We are going to have problems just like Massachusetts. [They] are struggling with access problems; it takes one year to get into a primary care physician. Coverage does not equal access."
Sentiment Stats:
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  • Mean: 0.02872725
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FieldTerminology: health insurance coverage

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Country: United States

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Organization: Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies

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Organization: American Medical Association

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Organization: Robert Graham Center

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Organization: University of Alberta

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