Medical Economics November 24, 2021
In response to great need for primary care, we have been purposefully redesigning and changing it for a decade now. Have we made any progress?
When are we finally going to make progress on improving access and availability to high-quality, comprehensive primary care for all the citizens of the US? I have been a family physician for almost 40 years and the drumbeat for action has been the same across all those years. It has waxed and waned but has always been present.
“We don’t have enough primary care physicians for the population,” it goes. “There is a maldistribution of physicians with significant shortages in rural and under-served areas, and payment inequities for primary care make it hard to provide...