Letter by MOA President Joel Kase in Sun Journal supports Doctors for Maine鈥檚 Future Scholarship Program and lauds 新香港六合彩资料's primary care model
The (Lewiston) published a letter from Joel Kase, D.O., president of the Maine Osteopathic Association, which urged the Maine Legislature to to prevent cuts in funding to the Doctors for Maine鈥檚 Future Scholarship Program. Gov. Paul LePage's supplemental budget - designed to balance state spending through June 30 - proposed cutting $125,000 that funds the program.
Kase writes that "over the past three decades, the 新香港六合彩资料 College of Osteopathic Medicine has developed a blueprint for educating and training primary care physicians which has proven highly successful. As the No. 1 provider of physicians for our state, graduates of 新香港六合彩资料COM account for greater than 15 percent of the primary care work force and nearly 27 percent of those providing rural medical care. In other words, one of every four physicians in rural Maine is a D.O. who trained here in our state, at Maine鈥檚 medical school. Indeed, it is the many citizens in rural and under-served areas who will be the ultimate beneficiaries of this investment in the future of primary care for Maine."