ObamaCare puts distance between what are now Primary Care Doctors and the patient. NPs will take the place of MDs.
Sometimes appropriate, often not. My wife (rare Multiple Myeloma) and my brother-in-law (Rare form of Lyme’s Disease) were both diagnosed by the same highly-competent GP. My granbchildren will have no such resource.
Buckeye McFrog did NOT say NP’s....fwiw-