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Originally Posted by travelguy
Well, I had a heart attack just over a year ago and I could not be more satisfied with the excellent care that I got, first from the EMT's, then in the Emergency Room, and finally from the cardiologist assigned to me. .......
...Perhaps when the 'Affordable Healthcare Act' takes effect we will have the healthcare that all of us are deserving of.
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What is more likely is that the number of people using (or abusing) the E.R.'s will increase because there are not enough primary-care doctors to actually see, much less treat, all the people having a shiny new Medicaid card to use for getting "free" care with no deductible.....first-dollar coverage.
...."This is worrisome," said study author Dr. Colin West, an internist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "In the next decade, we will be 50,000 primary-care physicians short for the needs of the country."
Compounding the likely shortage is health care reform under the Affordable Care Act, which is expected to flood the system with new patients in the coming years....."
Study Foresees Shortage of Primary-Care Doctors - US News and World Report