General Discussion

I live in a solidly blue urban city with over a million people in Texas. We're seeing more and more difficulty finding specialists here. We're seeing more difficulties finding PCPs here. Long waits, even if you have good insurance. This seems to be mainly a problem caused by so many people moving to the state/area (we have a huge number of people moving here and it's straining infrastructure but the healthcare stuff going on right now definitely has me worried because there already aren't enough doctors to go around.) In certain specialties where it's already incredibly hard to get in as a new patient, some of the very few doctors in that specialty are switching over to a cash only model ( $800 per office visit, $200 per prior auth or prescription you want her to write), exacerbating the problem. This definitely is going to be felt by everyone.