Something doesn't make sense here...with the new insurance law in Massachusetts, it is becoming increasingly difficult for those who did not have insurance prior to get set up with a primary care MD and there is a long wait...and now the state is one of a few wishing to block the use of retail clinics? It seems like the clinics could be helpful in some areas. BD
Some physician organizations, however, including ones in Illinois and Massachusetts, are pushing for new regulations that would impede the growth of convenient care clinics through expensive permitting requirements (which physician practices do not have to face), further limitations on the number of nurse practitioners that an individual physician can supervise, and prohibitions against advertising that compares the fees of convenient care clinics with those of physicians. This is exactly the kind of price transparency our health-care system needs. In addition, the American Medical Association passed resolutions at its recent annual meeting that push for government intervention, legislation and other measures that could curtail the expansion of convenient care clinics.
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