Leave it to Clinton-era Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala to make the point that creating universal health insurance would not establish universal health access. The Miami Herald spotlighted her comments today: “The reality is that healthcare reform that focuses on fixing healthcare insurance without dealing with the chronic and growing shortage of physicians is likely to encounter what Massachusetts has encountered, and that is that they don’t have enough healthcare providers.”
Sure, you’ve got the insurance, but so does everyone else, and the end result is that the wait time for a doctor is measured on a geological time scale.