{"id":5803,"date":"2008-09-22T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T07:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/09\/the-future-of-us-healthcare.html"},"modified":"2008-09-22T07:10:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T07:10:07","slug":"the-future-of-us-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/09\/the-future-of-us-healthcare.html","title":{"rendered":"The future of U.S. healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the socialists get their way<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The wait to see primary care doctors in Massachusetts has grown to as long as 100 days, while the number of practices accepting new patients has dipped in the past four years, with care the scarcest in some rural areas.
\nNow, as the state’s health insurance mandate threatens to make a chronic doctor shortage worse, the Legislature has approved an unprecedented set of financial incentives for young physicians, and other programs to attract primary care doctors. But healthcare leaders fear the new measures will take several years to ease the shortage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read the rest of the story and see how much money has to be dumped into the system to entice doctors to work in Massachusetts. Imagine the cost of doing that across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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