The primary care shortage will get much worse when more Americans are covered. That’s a better problem than letting 47 million Americans remain uninsured.

According to Dr. Ted Epperly, president of the Kansas-based American Academy of Family Physicians:

To keep up with the demand for primary care doctors, the country will need to add another 40,000 to the existing 100,000 doctors over the next decade or face a soaring backlog.