Medical Economics February 18, 2025
Scorecard has bad marks for health care system that devotes rhetoric and attention — but not money — to primary care.
While primary care physicians provide good treatments for their patients, primary care is not getting the treatment it needs from the health care system at large.
That’s no surprise, said experts who analyzed the new report, “The Cost of Neglect: How Chronic Underinvestment in Primary Care is Failing US Patients.” It is the third Primary Care Scorecard published by the Milbank Memorial Fund and The Physicians Foundation, working with researchers at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Primary Care.
On Feb. 18, the organizations convened an online panel to discuss the report with news media. Participants included...
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