Having insurance does not mean there's a doctor who can see you.
"Massachusetts has the highest ratio of doctors per population in the country, but that doesn’t mean its residents can find a primary care physician who is accepting new patients. It got harder to secure a slot after 2006, according to one of three reports on health care released by the state today.
Last year 60 percent of family medicine doctors’ offices were accepting new patients, down from 70 percent in 2007, the first full year after passage of a state law mandating near-universal health insurance coverage. Last year only 44 percent of internal medicine practices were accepting new patients, down from 66 percent in 2005......"
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