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6 Ways States Are Addressing the Doctor Shortage

You hear it all the time: One of the great unknowns and the biggest concerns for 2014, when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends health insurance coverage to up to 30 million people via Medicaid and private insurance, is whether there will be enough doctors to take care of all the new patients.

The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the country will be 90,000 primary care doctors short by the end of the decade, leading many to ask what the point of giving people health insurance is if they don’t have adequate places to go to use it.

By Dylan Scott

Full Story: http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-states-addressing-doctor-shortage.html

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