{"id":4742,"date":"2010-04-13T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2010-04-13T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:33:51","slug":"u-s-faces-doc-shortage-limited-access-to-care-long-wait-times-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4742\/u-s-faces-doc-shortage-limited-access-to-care-long-wait-times-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Faces Doc Shortage: Limited Access to Care, Long Wait Times Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merely weeks after the passage of ObamaCare, experts are already sounding the alarm:\u00a0\u00a0<em>The nation doesn&#8217;t have enough doctors!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Sataline and Shirley S. Wang\u00a0of <em>The Wall Street Journal <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304506904575180331528424238.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greatest demand will be for primary-care physicians. These general practitioners, internists, family physicians and pediatricians will have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patient. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A shortage of primary-care and other physicians could mean more-limited access to health care and longer wait times for patients.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full piece <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304506904575180331528424238.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merely weeks after the passage of ObamaCare, experts are already sounding the alarm:\u00a0\u00a0The nation doesn&#8217;t have enough doctors! Suzanne Sataline and Shirley S. Wang\u00a0of The Wall Street Journal report: At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1099,961,12],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-association-of-american-medical-colleges","tag-doctors","tag-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4747,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}