The Massachusetts Medical Society reports that 40% of family practice doctors and 56% of internal medicine physicians no longer accept new patients — “the highest percentages of primary care practices closed to new patients … ever recorded.”
Think of this in light of Boston being the city where more physicians receive training than anywhere in the country. This is where the cataclysm of gov’t run healthcare is going to hit – who’s going to go to 4 yrs undergrad, med school and an internship to become a gov’t employee? there are some who will but when you hear the lunacy about forcing specialists to become pcp’s and gp’s and this is what you’re going to get. The gov’t always thinks they can repeal the law of supply and demand – how’s that working out?
