{"id":26938,"date":"2011-06-27T01:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/u-s-_plans_stealth_survey_on_access_to_doctors\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T01:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T01:30:41","slug":"u-s-_plans_stealth_survey_on_access_to_doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26938","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) U.S. Plans Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of \u201cmystery shoppers\u201d\u009d to pose as patients, call doctors\u2019 offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when they need it.<\/p>\n<p>The administration says the survey will address a \u201ccritical public policy problem\u201d\u009d: the increasing shortage of primary care doctors, including specialists in internal medicine and family practice. It will also try to discover whether doctors are accepting patients with private insurance while turning away those in government health programs that pay lower reimbursement rates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/27\/health\/policy\/27docs.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarmed by a shortage of primary care doctors, Obama administration officials are recruiting a team of \u201cmystery shoppers\u201d\u009d to pose as patients, call doctors\u2019 offices and request appointments to see how difficult it is for people to get care when<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26938\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,582,589,149,104,617,616,151,667,618,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}