Some experts say no, but only time can tell...
PPACA incorporates a number of provisions intending to expand the primary care workforce, equip primary care practitioners with new technological capabilities, and reorient our delivery system with payment and organizational reforms. However, some experts believe that these reforms maybe too little too late (pardon the puns):
The medical education timetable is at odds with the timetable for healthcare reform. Consider a college graduate who enters medical school this fall and plans to pursue a family medicine career because of more generous financial aid and the promise of improved reimbursement under the reform law. He or she would not graduate until the spring of 2014. Tack on another 3 years of residency training and that new family physician would not be on Main Street, ready to give an appointment, until 2017.
Check out Solving Primary Care Shortage Requires More Than New Healthcare Reform Law from Medscape Medical News to get the full picture.
