Healthcare Innovation September 9, 2024

Writing in Health Affairs, three researchers assert the failure of corporations to enhance primary care

In a just-published op-ed in Health Affairs, three healthcare policy experts, all of them members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Standing Committee on Primary Care, argue that the stumbles of the for-profit entrepreneurial corporations that have entered the primary care area, speak to the inability of the capitalist market to advance the optimization of primary care delivery and organization in U.S. healthcare.

Writing in the Forefront section of Health Affairs online on Sep. 5, Kevin Grumbach, M.D., Deborah J. Cohen, Ph.D., and Yalda Jabbarpour, M.D., assert in “The Failing Experiment Of Primary Care As a For-Profit Enterprise,” that the for-profit companies...

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