Dentist David Tefu Kuo performs a tooth extraction on Kevin Perry, 42, of Adelanto. (Gabriel Luis Acosta\/Staff Photographer) <\/p>\n
That's what brought him to the National Orange Show Events Center at 4:30 a.m. Saturday for the Care 4 a Health IE clinic. <\/p>\n
\"Tomorrow, I will be here at 4 a.m.,\" he said. <\/p>\n
Officials with Molina Healthcare say about 4,000 people will receive free medical, dental, vision and other services during the three-day event, which ends today. That's an increase of 1,500 from the 2012 event, said Dr. Martha Molina Bernadette, daughter of Molina Healthcare's founder, the late Dr. C. David Molina. <\/p>\n
\"I know (my father) would be so proud of this event today, because access is what it's all about,\" Molina Bernadette said. <\/p>\n
The patients came amid a changing health-care landscape -- one with a shortfall of primary care physicians despite the rising number of people who will have access to health care under the Affordable Health Care Act for America. <\/p>\n
But, Molina Bernadette says, that's an issue that medical professionals anticipated long before the legislation was introduced. The issue is more evident now because the need has increased dramatically. <\/p>\n
a\"The country has not produced enough primary care physicians for decades,\" she said. <\/p>\n
She says with the new laws in place, existing doctors will have to adapt to the influx until hospitals can hire more. <\/p>\n
\"The shortage may create the need for them to work more and longer hours and more days in order to meet that need,\" Molina Bernadette said. <\/p>\n
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