{"id":9890,"date":"2008-12-01T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/massachusetts_health_care_reform_reveals_doctor_shortage\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T17:00:57","slug":"massachusetts_health_care_reform_reveals_doctor_shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9890","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts  Health Care Reform Reveals Doctor Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health care reform in Massachusetts has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance. But there&#8217;s an unintended consequence: A sudden demand for primary care doctors has outpaced the supply.<\/p>\n<p>Kamela Christara appears at the triage window in the emergency room at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in western Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old single mother has advanced Lyme disease, and she can&#8217;t find a primary care doctor to oversee her care. She&#8217;s called half a dozen practices in three towns, and none are accepting new patients. So when problems come up, even routine ones, she comes to the emergency room. Each time, she goes through her medical history with the intake nurse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=97620520\">Read or listen to it all from NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health care reform in Massachusetts has led to a dramatic increase in the number of people with health insurance. But there&#8217;s an unintended consequence: A sudden demand for primary care doctors has outpaced the supply. Kamela Christara appears at the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9890\">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":[39,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890","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=9890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}