Innovative idea from Boston’s mayor. Subsidized housing as a means to lure primary care physicians into the city.
Similar forward-thinking ideas from our politicians are needed.
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just wagging the dog…
how about fixing the ACTUAL problem and not just fluff solutions?!?
Rent control for GPs and Internists?
Chump change for suckers to live in grotesquely over-taxed City of Boston. Would cost you far more than anything you would save. Only a fool would fall for this con.
why not give them $100/month in food stamps! what a crock.
mayor mumbles isn’t even proposing the city/state foot the bill for any of this, he wants the city’s 3 medical schools to subsidize primary care in the city. Nevermind that BMC already takes any one regardless of (or especially because of) inability to pay AND that the state has reduced the free care subsidy and wants to get rid of the rest of it. Never mind all of that, we’ll get more PCPs in an unlivably expensive city by forcing research institutions to house PCPs on site (who on earth would want to live in institutional housing near BMC anyway?)
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