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Health care reform: Influx of newly insured may overwhelm Utah docs
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Health care reform, if it succeeds, may result in thousands more Utahns getting health insurance.
But in a state already strapped for doctors, it doesn’t mean they will get to see a physician right away. A sudden influx of the newly insured, experts warn, could overwhelm a system already stretched too thin.
By one consumer health advocacy group’s estimate, an additional 195,000 state residents could be insured by 2013 if the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 is signed into law. Six years later, that number could be as high as 313,000.
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