{"id":7951,"date":"2017-08-24T12:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7951"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T16:20:02","slug":"study-medicaid-expansion-did-not-cause-pcp-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=7951","title":{"rendered":"Study: Medicaid expansion did not cause PCP shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite predictions of severe primary care shortages due to increased health coverage under the ACA, a study published in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/article-abstract\/2605525\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JAMA Internal Medicine<\/a><\/em>\u00a0shows primary care appointment availability increased for Medicaid patients after the implementation of the ACA \u2014 without reducing availability for privately insured patients. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/hospital-physician-relationships\/study-medicaid-expansion-did-not-cause-pcp-shortage.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7838\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Medical-exam.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Despite predictions of severe primary care shortages due to increased health coverage under<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7952,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7951\/revisions\/7952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}