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Baby Boomer Generation + AMA = A Shortfall of Doctors

  • March 03, 2005

The cover story in this morning's USA Today provides a brilliant report of just one of the more unexpected consequences of our existing, failed health care paradigm: A shortfall of doctors. That flies in the face of estimates by the American Medical Association who predicted in 1994 a glut of some 165,000 physicians by 2000 and worked to limit the number of new doctors. New studies are predicting, as the baby boomer generation -- 79 million strong -- reaches retirement, the shortage...