Healthcare a Crisis

Health care crisis growing | DMN | 7.10.07

By 2020, America will be short 24,000 doctors and nearly 1 million nurses, the federal government predicts; now a major tax and consulting firm says the problem will be even worse.

The total number of nurses in the country is projected to begin decreasing after 2010.

While shortages will create difficulties, an even greater problem will arise from the unequal distributions of physicians by specialty and geography, according to the Pricewaterhouse report.

Rough times are coming.