In pockets of the United States, rural and urban, a confluence of market and medical forces has been widening the gap between the supply of primary care physicians and the demand for their services. Modest pay, medical school debt, an aging population and the prevalence of chronic disease have each played a role.
Now in Massachusetts, in an unintended consequence of universal coverage, the imbalance is being exacerbated by the state’s new law requiring residents to have health insurance.
Certainly, even my deceased grandmother could have made this prediction. Political remedies for individual problems always have the same results; and now the geniuses in Massachusetts's legislature are going to "fix" the resulting problem with yet another attempt to make things right. Don't worry, though, the Presidential candidates have it all worked out....
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