How can the physician workforce be diversified?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will increase insurance coverage for the poor, uninsured and minorities, but will it improve access to care and population health? The answer depends critically on whether or not physicians are available to care for the newly insured. Many health policy experts fear there may not be.
While the ACA contains some modest pay increases for doctors willing to see patients with Medicaid (the means-tested joint federal-state …