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kleinbl00 · 1897 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Doctor Monopoly is Killing American Patients
The urgent care model is basically filling in around the gaps, providing an inefficient and expensive mirror of European care. Rather than have a community health clinic that goes "take an asprin/have a vaccine/go to the emergency room" we have strip malls full of nurse practitioners going "take an aspirin/have a vaccine/go to the emergency room." The AMA has effectively priced themselves out of the market - if you can run an urgent care facility with a nursing degree why the fuck would you go to medical school?