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As nurse practitioners (NPs) assume an increasingly important role in the healthcare system under insurance reform, demand for their services will rise. A shortage of physicians going into primary care is opening up opportunities for NPs.
Americans are just starting to awaken to the fact that a physician shortage in this country may push an already-packed medical system to beyond capacity when 30 million potential new patients are added to the insurance rolls under the healthcare reform law.
There has been a dramatic decline in prenatal care by family physicians over the last decade. Recent research finds the provision of prenatal visits by family physicians decreased by 50% from 1995 to 2004.