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Healthcare reform would bring an immediate, crushing demand for care in Mississippi, and it could take the largely rural Magnolia State a decade to produce enough care providers to meet patients' needs. The report found that if 48 percent of those who were uninsured became insured, based on analysis from the Massachusetts baseline year (prior to implementation of the health insurance mandate), Mississippi would need 52 primary care physicians to have adequate statewide coverage of care based upon current physician utilization rates.
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Is There a Doctor in the County?
Healthcare reform would bring an immediate, crushing demand for care in Mississippi, and it could take the largely rural Magnolia State a decade to produce enough care providers to meet patients' needs.
That is the finding of a recently-released report from Northeast Mississippi Healt...See the full content of this document
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