4sight Health January 23, 2024
This is Part 2 in a two-part series.
As we discussed in Part 1, primary care is essential to better public health. The problem: Physicians are not going into primary care because of its burdens and poor compensation, and virtually every reform effort has failed to resolve this core problem. So, how do we stop the steady decline of primary care?
Fewer and fewer physicians are choosing primary care due to noncompetitive pay. The evidence is overwhelming:
From 2012 to 2020, only 20% of physicians trained in primary care residencies stayed in primary care.
Our nation spends only 4.5% of all healthcare spending on primary care (compared to 6% for dialysis treatment). This inadequate investment in primary...
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