Report: Obamacare Patients Likely To Struggle To Find Doctors
(Reason.com) The big selling point of the Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” to you and I — has been the extension of health-plan coverage to uninsured Americans. The implicit promise was that extending...
View ArticlePennsylvania Hospital Will Stop Delivering Babies, Thanks to Obamacare
(JD Journal) The impositions of Obamacare are beginning to be anticipated as businesses and hospitals change the structure of their operation to afford the new terms of coverage. Among those making a...
View ArticlePennsylvania Gov. Corbett might allow Obamacare expansion, but not without...
(PennLive) Gov. Tom Corbett might expand Medicaid as called for in the federal Affordable Care Act. But not unless the federal government gives in. “At this time, without serious reforms, it would be...
View ArticleWill a Medicaid expansion create jobs? A review of the evidence
(Tampa Bay Times) In an about-face, Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced that he would support a massive Medicaid expansion, providing health care coverage to an additional million Floridians thanks to...
View ArticleDoctors fight efforts by nurse practitioners to work independently and fill...
(Syracuse.com) Doctors and nurse practitioners are sparring over who will provide basic primary care to the 30 million U.S. citizens expected to get health insurance under the federal Affordable Care...
View ArticleThe nurse practitioner will see you now
(MarketPlace.org) It can be tough to see a primary care physician today. Just wait till next year when another 30 million patients or so get insurance under Obamacare. “We need all hands on deck. We...
View ArticleIncreasingly, our medical care is entrusted to nurse practitioners
(News Observer) You want a routine checkup. Or your throat is sore. It’s probably nothing, but you’re concerned. Do you need a full-fledged MD with all those certificates and perhaps a God complex?...
View ArticleNurse practitioners vs. doctors: A medical turf war?
(Daily Caller) Some characterize the latest showdown between nurse practitioners and physicians in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, and Texas as a turf war — a medical...
View ArticleUnprecedented Demand For Family Docs, Nurse Practitioners As Obamacare Emerges
(Forbes) The family physician is the most highly recruited doctor as the Affordable Care Act and trends in medical economics move more health care service to less expensive outpatient...
View ArticleTwo-thirds of UK nurses have considered resigning, says survey
(The Guardian) Almost two-thirds of nurses have considered quitting their jobs in the last 12 months because they are so stressed, a survey has found. Swingeing cuts to the numbers of nurses in the NHS...
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