Most recent reports:
The Physician Workforce: Projections and Research into Current Issues Affecting Supply and Demand
For at least a decade, the United States has experienced worsening workforce shortages in the health professions. Analysts now are projecting a nationwide shortage of almost 100,000 physicians, as many as one million nurses, and 250,000 public health professionals by 2020.
Due to the high cost of health insurance and increasingly pervasive staffing shortfalls in the health professions, at least 50 million Americans lack access to the most basic care. A third are children.
Targeted workforce studies document and project shortages and other trends that influence the adequacy of the U.S. health care system to meet current and future needs.