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

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IMG's = Foreign grads

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Yep..see it now. I was reading that as internal medical grads, which I figured was a typical DO or MD specializing in internal medicine. Thanks for the correction.


My wife works at a Level 1 Trauma Center staffed with allopathic and osteopathic physicians from all over the country.....and one or two allopathic physicians they have are from Caribbean schools. I didn't know there were so many of them.

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DOs comprised 4.9% and IMGs 22.2% of the total
clinically active workforce. However, they contributed 10.4% and
19.3%, respectively, to the rural PCP workforce, although their relative
representation varied geographically. DO PCPs were more
likely than allopathic PCPs to practice in rural places (20.5% versus
14.9%, respectively). IMG PCPs were more likely than other
PCPs to practice in rural persistent poverty locations

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Not that there is anything wrong with IMG, but I had no idea that there were so many of them.

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Correct

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I'm shocked that we'd go through this entire ACA ordeal with a claimed effort to "fix" our "broken" medical system, but not do a damn thing about increasing medical school enrollment or incentivizing primary care specialties in any way, shape, or form.

I don't know how anyone would honestly categorize Obamacare as health care reform.