Medical Economics March 5, 2024
Three experts talk about financial ramifications for physicians and the primary care workforce across the United States.
Primary care has a money problem: high entry cost through medical school tuition, but lower salaries for physicians and lower spending nationally on it.
Meanwhile, physicians must follow their passion in medicine, and it would help if more of them were passionate about primary care.
On Feb. 28, the Milbank Memorial Fund, The Physicians Foundation, and the Robert Graham Center of the American Academy of Family Physicians unveiled “The Health of US Primary Care: 2024 Scorecard Report – No One Can See You Now.” It was the second annual report on the state of primary care nationally.
The online presentation included a panel...