re: Primary healthcare services crisis - how does Obamacare address it?

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Nah. They can specialize in the same way a phsyician can. My wife is a fellowship trained hepatology PA. She would have no business seeing you in a primary care setting, but she can get you a new liver. Honestly, I believe prgrams are actively encouraging mid levels into primary care fields b/c they know the situation at hand, and it's really eazy to find opportunities in primary care for mid levels right now.

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What do you mean by "mid levels"?

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19.3% of rural physicians are foreign medical graduates

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Thanks for the link. I see where it says that allopathic physicians specializing in internal medicine and osteophatic physicians make up 19.3%....but I'm trying to find the stat for foreign medical graduates. Please forgive me for not understanding clearly....but by foreign medical graduates, I'm assuming you mean from medical schools outside of the US?

I'm not kidding when I say that my parents are, at any given time, a week away from seeing their PCP, who can't be more than a few years away from retirement. They hardly ever go to the doctor, which is kind of shocking for their age.

I know Louisiana, Indiana, Oregon, and Tennessee all have reimbursement programs for physicians that practice in rural, under served areas. It doesn't seem to be working very well from my perspective.