Six years after the influential California Future Health Workforce Commission made a series of recommendations to plug a projected shortage of 4,100 primary care providers in 2030, a number of public and private initiatives have proliferated around the state to address the problem. They include new residency slots, debt forgiveness, waived medical school tuition, new ways of paying doctors, expanded nurse practitioner roles, and a statewide target to increase primary care spending. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars have been allocated for some of these efforts. But numerous academic experts and medical professionals believe those moves, while well intended, have been scattershot and insufficient.
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Source: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/california-primary-care-shortage-persists-workforce-report-years-later/