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Victor_Korchnoi t1_j2t2kbx wrote

Reply to comment by husqofaman in Healey should give rural Massachusetts a seat at the table - The Boston Globe by GlobeOpinion

How do you want the licensing boards to incentivize doctors to work in rural areas? Allow doctors with lower board scores to only operate in rural areas?

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husqofaman t1_j2u110o wrote

Those are some bad ideas you have. I would suggest discounted licensing fees for practitioners who serve rural communities, even part time. Or maybe limit the number of licenses given per county, but that seems unlikely.

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Victor_Korchnoi t1_j2u564e wrote

My point was the licensing board doesn’t have that many levers it can pull to influence that. I don’t think the cost of licensing is a big enough incentive to change any doctors behavior

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