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Many countries already spend more than 20 percent of their GDP on healthcare. At the same time, there is an understaffing crisis in medicine. Rural areas, in particular, are underserved, with the primary care physician to patient ratio dipping to less than 40 physicians per 100,000 people, compared to 53 physicians per 100,000 in urban areas.