“A teetering economy already hangs over the state’s bold attempt to provide health insurance for almost all its residents. Now a new threat is forming: a spate of health-facility construction in Massachusetts that will inevitably add to the medical bills that employers and consumers must pay. This boom in bricks and mortar is coming just as new data on patients’ long waits for appointments with primary-care physicians show that the real need in the healthcare system is for more of these front-line practitioners.” [editor’s note: The real answer of course is making “skilled & competent healer” the focus of health & wellness, instead of just “licensed physician”; the AMA’s trade-unionism stranglehold is a major part of the problem, not the solution - SAT] (10/07/08)