Zócalo Public SquareWhere’d You Go, Doc? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Where’d You Go, Doc? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/11/26/whered-you-go-doc-2/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/11/26/whered-you-go-doc-2/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:01:52 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=42731 The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is scheduled to take full effect in early 2014. The legislation is supposed to increase the number of people with health insurance, and thus perhaps create new demand for healthcare and doctors at a time when some parts of the country, including California’s Central Valley, are reporting a shortage of care and physicians. In advance of the Zócalo event, “Does Bakersfield Need More Doctors?,” we posed the following question to healthcare experts: Will the Affordable Care Act create a nationwide doctor shortage, and if so, what can be done to prevent it?

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