Need for primary-care providers expected to rise by 20% in next decade, worsening the gap between supply and demand.
Studies have shown no difference in outcomes between patients treated by nurse practitioners — like Michele Knappe, left, and Julie Zimmer — and by doctors.Nearly 84 million Americans live in “primary-care health professional shortage areas” — places that don’t have enough primary-care physicians to meet patient need. That includes over 7.8 million patients living here in California.
States can end this unpardonable waste of human resources — and expand patient access to primary care — by repealing these antiquated laws. Repealing scope-of-practice laws could reduce the number of Americans living in counties with primary-care provider shortages by 70%. But that doesn’t make it right. Patients ultimately pay the price for these government-enforced limits on the supply of care, in the form of longer waits to see a doctor, rationed care and higher prices.
A January report from the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that expanding the scope of practice of nurse practitioners does not harm quality of care. It does, however, have the potential to lower health care costs, as a paper published earlier this year in Health Economics concluded.
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