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How Falling Birth Rates Reshape the Primary Care Doctor Shortage
In Episode 93 of The Demographics Podcast, Lucas and Luna drill into a specific and urgent consequence of declining birth rates: the deepening shortage of primary care physicians. With fewer children born, the patient pipeline narrows, but the doctor pipeline — which takes 10 to 15 years to train — is still calibrated for a population that no longer exists. Lucas cites a 2024 Association of American Medical Colleges projection of a shortage of 20,000 to 40,000 primary care physicians by 2036, and explains how falling birth rates actually accelerate that gap by reducing the number of young…
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