A stay-at-home mom for 10 years, Martha Tuff wanted a career in medicine. But at 38 and raising four boys, she decided the decade-long preparation to become a doctor “would be too much for me.’’ So she enrolled in a two-year master’s degree program to become a physician assistant. She will be ready to care for patients by next fall.
Under the state’s new health care cost-control law, legislators are counting on physician assistants like Tuff as critical partners in the effort to curb medical spending, improve the coordination of treatment, and give patients easier access to basic care amid a shortage of primary care doctors.
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This is inevitable under under the Massachusetts plan and Obamacare. This will give the illusion of available quality care to an ever deteriorationg health care system foisted on us by the Democrats. As fewer and fewer doctors graduate as the result of lower fees paid by the inevitable single payer system that will be widespread as insurance companies go out of business, lessor trained people will be making decisions on our medical care.
2 years and a primary care provider? OMG!!! Thanks, Obama
This development has nothing to do with Obamacare. It is ironic that the previous posters must be frustrated "LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANTS" who do not know what the law will do and do not do, just more of their idiotic and wild ranting.