Recent news that a minor debt reduction program is having success is relieving some of the primary care shortage in Massachusetts:
The recent report that a debt reduction program aimed at recruiting clinicians to community health centers in Eastern Massachusetts exceeded expectations was good news indeed. Launched in 2007 with funds from Bank of America, the program placed 35 physicians and 12 nurse practitioners at 23 health centers that serve many low-income residents.
This doesn’t solve the larger problem they created by implementing pseudo-universal coverage before an adequate primary care network was implemented. Read it and weep.
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- Reforming health care using the Massachusetts model won’t relieve ER overcrowding
- "The numbers don’t lie"
- Auctioning off medical debt
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Yep, like a free market where shortages result in higher prices which in draw higher supply.
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