Congressional spending plan: What’s in it for healthcare, and what isn’t
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Fixing health care starts with primary care
Medical Economics December 5, 2024
Key Takeaways
- Hospitals are financially strained and inefficient for primary care, necessitating a shift to community-based systems.
- The decline of community-based primary care, driven by EHRs and centralized hospital systems, has worsened access and increased costs.
- Policymakers and insurers must support independent physicians with alternative payment models and improved compensation to enhance care quality.
- Without swift action, the healthcare system risks further hospital failures and potential government control, which may not align with societal preferences.
Community-based primary care has been hollowed out over the past 25 years, starting with the advent of electronic health records.
Hospitals should not be at the center of the health care system. This problem has been building for fifty years. Patients and their...
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