There’s going to be some problems in Minnesota in the next 10 years:
Doctors are getting older in Minnesota.
In the next 10 years one in three will retire, and there aren’t enough future physicians to replace them. That could threaten your access to health care.
Combine this with a demand problem:
The Minnesota Health Insurance Exchange will give access to health care to an estimated 300,000 currently un-insured Minnesotans, meaning more patients, more overtime, and fewer doctors to treat them.
Now, I happen to think that as we increase our demand for doctors, the market should correct and supply us with more. However, this can only happen if the market is free enough to allow corrections in price.
It’ll be interesting to watch as this unfolds across the country.