re: What are the economics of Affordable Care Act?

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Well can you blame someone for being upset that they have worked their arse off through college, medical school, and residency to make peanuts being a PCP. The workload is going up with salaries going down.

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Its completely speculative on my part but I believe the future of primary care will look differently in the near future. More advanced practitioner roles like ARNP's and PA's working the front lines. MD's will be reserved for more complex cases and specialty work.

To be clear, I do sympathize with the plight of MD's and their student loan debts. The cost of college is another debate for another time. As for peanuts, an interesting article from the UK recently suggests that over a third of their nationalized PCP's are making upwards of $250K per year. There's a lot of folks that would be quite happy with those peanuts.