Dealing with the current social problems involving health care and health care reform, I am particularly curious about one aspect of reform. I am curious as to what will happen when we take an already overburdened, undermanned health care system, and add 48 million uninsured people (according to the United States White House’s webpage) to it. It is absurd to think that this will not decrease the accessibility of health care to citizens. For better or worse, health care will have to be rationed. I believe that the key to handling the huge burden of adding 48 million people to the current health care system is the training of more mid-level providers. I think that this is the only practical way to offset the newly added people. This may decrease the overall quality of the health care delivered, but if utilized correctly, I believe these mid-level providers (such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners) are the only practical solution.
