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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (6754)	5/6/2009 12:20:58 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 42652

If the shortage of primary care docs is a serious as has been suggested (you mentioned the 2% figure, which I had seen somewhere before, as well), there will have to be a real change in the way primary care is done. There will be no choice but to have PAs and NPs as the "new" primary care provider. I know that more and more clinics I am in have NPs and PAs handling bigger pieces of the workload. I just think it a progression that has to happen. Regardless of what they do with the health care system, this is going to be a problem. I think it can go too far. I have one clinic in a small town where it is operated by a NP, purportedly supervised by an MD, but the MD is in that office a half day per week. While business is booming there, I do question the quality of care being delivered. I'm just not sure there is a lot of supervision going on there, if you know what I mean. There may be more to it than meets the eye, however - I could be wrong about it. I was talking w/ my sister last night and she was saying where they live it is SOP that you see a PA or NP unless you case is "escalated". So, I guess some places it is common practice.

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