BRIEF: Health care reform means more work for primary-care doctors [Erie Times-News, Pa.]

Sept. 28--John Ferretti, D.O., offers two perspectives on the Affordable Care Act.

As a practicing physician, Ferretti said he is concerned payments for treating all of these newly insured patients won't cover the expense.

As the president of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ferretti is excited about how health-care reform will increase the need for primary care doctors.

"As an educational institute, we will benefit," Ferretti said. "The country will continue to need new physicians, and we will continue to produce new physicians."

Ferretti is in a unique position, but he shares a wait-and-see attitude with many local physicians about how the Affordable Care Act, and specifically the start of the Health Insurance Exchange, will change the way doctors see and treat patients.

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