Healthcare professionals are warning that there could be a wide gap between the number of people seeking medical treatment under Obamacare and the number of doctors available to provide it.
A triple threat — more people needing care, tens of thousands of doctors reaching retirement age and a growing number of physicians getting so frustrated with bureaucracy that they want out — could undermine any improvements the law envisages.
Dr. Jeff Cain, President of the American Academy of Family Physicians, told Fox News, "We have an increasing population, we have more Americans that are getting older that need more healthcare. And with the 30 million Americans that are newly insured with the Affordable Healthcare Act, more people are looking for primary care."
At the same time, 10,000 baby boomers are set to retire every day for the next 19 years — and that number includes thousands of doctors.
In addition, as Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research told Fox, "There are a lot of doctors who are just so frustrated; today with all the bureaucracy involved in taking care of patients that they're retiring early."
The rollout of the Affordable Care Act comes at a time when there is already a shortage of doctors in many parts of the country; nearly one in five Americans lives in a region designated as having a shortage of primary care physicians.
Via: Newsmax
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