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The Obama administration is hiring people to pose as prospective patients to call doctors’ offices in order to assess the nature of a predicted doctor shortage as the president’s national health care law goes into effect, according to the New York... Perhaps the biggest looming problem for the president’s law, if it gets enacted, is the fact that if 30 million people are dumped into the insurance-based health care model, the already strained health care delivery system will simply snap. , talking to the New York Times about a new Obama administration program to send out analysts posing as patients to compile a report on doctor availability. Forecasts also show millions of Americans, currently covered by private insurance, being dumped into government programs as employers beg off when faced by new requirements. The problem will be exacerbated by the fact that most of the newly insured will be participants in government programs like Mediciad, currently reserved for the poor and for uninsured children.