Late to the Feast: Primary Care and US Health Policy

As health care spending in the US increases, discontent among primary care physicians continues to grow, and student interest in primary care continues to plummet. Policymakers struggle with public concerns about managed care and insurance gaps; physician concerns about malpractice rates and decreas...

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Published inThe American journal of medicine Vol. 120; no. 6; pp. 553 - 559
Main Authors Rich, Eugene C., MD, Maio, Anna, MD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.06.2007
Elsevier
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
General aspects
Health Care Costs
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health Expenditures
Health Policy - economics
Health Services Accessibility
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Physicians, Family - standards
Physicians, Family - trends
Practice Patterns, Physicians
Primary care
Primary Health Care - standards
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
United States
United States
Medicine
Late
Health policy
Primary health care
Public health
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Summary:As health care spending in the US increases, discontent among primary care physicians continues to grow, and student interest in primary care continues to plummet. Policymakers struggle with public concerns about managed care and insurance gaps; physician concerns about malpractice rates and decreases in Medicare fee schedules; and medical school and teaching hospital concerns about new technology costs and Graduate Medical Education reimbursements.
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ISSN:0002-9343
1555-7162
DOI:10.1016/j.amjmed.2007.03.005