This week in the news..

From the New York Times: The U.S government in an effort to understand the problem with access to primary care physicians seek individuals to pose as mystery shoppers. Each physician will receive at least two calls from the fake patients. The study will track how long it takes for each fake patient to get an appointment if they are accepted and if they are not accepted,the study will keep track of the reasons.
I am not sure that the results from this study will be very useful to the problem America faces with the shortage of primary care physicians. The only way to fix the problem is to address the medicaid reimbursement problems and the low wages of primary care physician as compared to other specialties. But them maybe they data will led them to take a better look at the reimbursement structure for primary care treatments.