Primary care and public health – ‘We need to talk to each other’

Medical Economics October 23, 2023
Richard Payerchin

American Public Health Association leader discusses legislation and a holistic view of U.S. health care.

Patients and the nation will benefit when primary care and public health have more support – including from each other.

In late summer and autumn, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) AND Sen. Roger Marshall, MD (R-Kansas), have led the charge for Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act. It plans to bolster primary care by supporting community health centers and the workforce, including $300 million to add 2,000 primary care doctors by 2032. The bill has been recommended for full congressional consideration by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

But helping one sector of health care could hurt another one. The bill summary states...

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