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Report: Serious health access problems for rural Americans
A new report from the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius suggests that people living in rural areas face particularly difficult challenges in accessing healthcare, including higher rates of... Read more...
Senate may add 5 percent bonus to Medicare for primary care MDs
After years of talk about the growing shortage of primary care doctors, the Senate seems to be doing something--maybe not something huge, but something--to address the problem. As part of a package... Read more...
Emergency physician shortage settling in
The current state of emergency physicians is bad enough, with the 40,000 clinically active emergency doctors far from enough to treat the growing number of patients showing up in the ED. The shortage... Read more...
