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Medicaid, by lowering the perceived price of medical care, increases the demand on care providers.
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The medical economist Rashi Fein observed in 1986 that there are only three ways to limit the extravagant demand for medical care: "Inconvenience, " the practice used in the military, where one must wait interminably for care.
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They all share in common a coming influx of customers which means a large pool of Americans with a pent up demand for medical care.
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Why is growing demand for medical care considered a crisis?
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The increased demand for medical care and lower reimbursements which is one of the primary ways ObamaCare will try to hold down costs is a recipe for a mass exodus of doctors willing to practice medicine.
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The additional paying customers with what many believe will be a pent up demand for medical care service are already expected to stress the health care system, putting more pressure on primary care doctors like internists and family doctors.
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So, in economic terms, the demand curve for medical care skews upward.
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And yet, too many people are going without basic medical care because the supply side and the demand side somehow do not connect.
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Rosales, a single mother, came to Project Quest, a sectoral program in San Antonio, Texas, where she was able to choose from among a range of professions identified by local health care employers as in demand: medical laboratory technician, medical transcriptionist, radiography technologist, and registered nurse, to name but a few.
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The graying of the U.S. population and the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, will increase the demand for medical services.
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Moreover, many governments that provide medical care for their citizens (including America, if Barack Obama's health proposals become law) are beginning to demand that drugs firms prove the effectiveness of expensive new pills in practice as well as in theory.
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