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Patients will flood doctor's offices when Obamacare begins

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ Access to physicians in Oklahoma, especially in rural
area, could become even more limited when the federal health care law kicks in
next year and thousands of previously uninsured Oklahomans obtain coverage.
 
 Physician Manpower Training Commission deputy executive director Jim Bishop
says people will be ``flooding'' doctor's offices. The commission is a state
agency that administers programs intended to improve the medical care in rural
and underserved areas of Oklahoma.
 
 Oklahoma ranked 43rd in the nation in 2010 with about 76 doctors per 100,0
residents.
 
 The state currently offers a variety of programs that includes a scholarship
program offering $60,000 over four years to primary care providers and a program
that provides up to $160,000 over four years to help physicians who locate in
underserved areas repay their student loans.

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